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Headword: *su=s
Adler number: sigma,1673
Translated headword: hog
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a pig.[1]
[Note] that u(=s [ought to be used] for the female, but su=s for the male.[2]
But they use [the forms] indifferently: "so that you may seem to be [offspring] of a good sow."
Greek Original:
*su=s: o( xoi=ros. o(/ti u(=s e)pi\ qhlei/as, su=s de\ e)pi\ a)/rrenos. ke/xrhntai de\ a)diafo/rws: o(/pws de\ do/cht' h)=men a)gaqa\ suo/s.
Notes:
Entry lacking, Adler reports, in ms F.
[1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 11.293, where the headword occurs in the dative singular (web address 1).
[2] cf. scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 741. The rest of the entry, including the quotation from this passage (text at web address 2), is taken from upsilon 670 (see note there).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 October 2005@11:59:23.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmeticules) on 13 October 2005@03:22:13.
David Whitehead on 5 January 2014@05:44:27.
David Whitehead (another note) on 10 June 2014@05:09:16.

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