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Headword:
Gergerimon
Adler number: gamma,187
Translated headword: over-ripe
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the ripened olive on the tree. "[Over-ripe] and pituris[1], and [one] which they preserved white". That is, the olive crushed and so preserved. "An autumn-olive swimming in brine"; he is speaking of the kolumbas ["pickled olive"].[2]
Greek Original:Gergerimon: tên en tôi dendrôi pepantheisan elaian. [gergerimon] piturin te, kai hên apethêkato leukên. toutesti tên sunthlastheisan kai houtôs apotetheisan elaan. ein hali de nêchesthai phthinopôrida: tên kolumbada legei.
Notes:
The headword, which should be the first word of the quotation given (but has been omitted in transmission), is in the accusative case.
[1] A type of olive which was small and pale in colour.
[2]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr.248, with comments from the
scholia there; cf.
Athenaeus,
Deipnosophists 2.56C (2.47 Kaibel). See also
delta 1549,
epsilon 729, and
phi 494.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2003@03:51:51.
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