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Headword:
Oistros
Adler number: omicroniota,181
Translated headword: gadfly, frenzy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] stimulation, heating, burning with madness.[1]
They call any impulse
oi)=stros. From this also comes
oi)strodo/nhtos muxo/s ["the whirling depth"], that which is driven by the wind.
Aristophanes [writes]: "and you, Poseidon of the sea, leaving the fishy whirling depth [...]."[2]
And the Pisidian [writes]: "for there is a frenzy, especially among the barbarians, to have an unstable inclination for change."[3]
Greek Original:Oistros: erethismos, ekkausis, purôsis emmanês. Oistron de kalousi pasan kinêsin. enthen kai oistrodonêtos muchos, ho hupo anemou elaunomenos. Aristophanês: su te Pontie Poseidon, prolipôn muchon ichthuoent' oistrodonêton. kai Pisidês: oistros gar esti, kai malista barbarois, pros tas metabolas eumetaptôtôs echein.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; ethics; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 June 2005@00:23:24.
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