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Headword:
*)amnoi\
tou\s
tro/pous
Adler number: alpha,1615
Translated headword: lambs in disposition
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning gentle, easy-going, simple, like rams, or soft. For the male sheep, when he reaches middle age, is called an amnos. But some call the year-old sheep an amnos.[1]
Greek Original:*)amnoi\ tou\s tro/pous: a)nti\ tou= praei=s, eu)h/qeis, a(ploi=, w(s oi( krioi/, h)\ malakoi/. to\ ga\r a)/rren pro/baton, o(/tan e)/xh| th\n me/shn h(liki/an, a)mno\s kalei=tai. oi( de\ to\n e)niau/sion a)/rna a)mno\n kalou=sin.
Notes:
The headword phrase quotes
Aristophanes,
Peace 935 (web address 1), and the substance of the entry is from the
scholia on it.
[1] On this terminology see already
alpha 1614.
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; definition; ethics; zoology
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 18 December 2000@16:31:04.
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