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Headword:
*)/ompnios
leimw/n
Adler number: omicron,306
Translated headword: flourishing meadow, nourishing meadow
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning sc. one filled with] grain, and the fruits of Demeter: since Demeter is called *)ompni/a.
Greek Original:*)/ompnios leimw/n: o( si=tos, kai\ oi( *dhmhtriakoi\ karpoi/: e)pei\ *)ompni/a h( *dhmh/thr le/getai.
Notes:
Phrase of unknown origin but taken to come from tragedy:
Tragica Adespota fr. 594a. Same entry (but with the adjective spelled
o)/pnios) in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron411 Theodoridis (from
Pausanias the Atticist omicron16); cf.
Hesychius omicron831, the
scholia on
Nicander,
Alexipharmaca 7, and -- for its afterlife as a proverb --
Appendix Proverbiorum (
o)/mpnios karpo/s) 4.20 etc.
cf.
omicron 303,
omicron 304,
omicron 307, and especially
omicron 305.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 December 2009@15:03:45.
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