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Headword: Phthinopôron
Adler number: phi,494
Translated headword: late autumn
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"A turning-back of the sun from us [...] of the crops towards the places from which they came. Of the growth of them the sun is the cause, turning the clouds into vapor."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "an autumn-olive swimming in brine". He is calling the pickled olive fqinopwri/s.[2]
Greek Original:
Phthinopôron: palindromia tou hêliou aph' hêmôn genomenou tôn karpôn pros tous topous, aph' hôn egenonto. tês de geneseôs autôn aition genesthai ton hêlion, exatmizonta ta nephê. kai phthinopôrida ein hali nêchesthai. phthinopôrida tên kolumbada legei.
Notes:
[1] An approximation of Diogenes Laertius 7.152 (Stoic doctrine).
[2] Callimachus, Hecale fr. 248: from gamma 187.
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; food; imagery; philosophy; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 November 2010@22:03:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; more keywords; tweaks) on 26 November 2010@03:20:36.
David Whitehead on 12 December 2013@07:34:44.
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