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Headword:
*peu=kai
Adler number: pi,1412
Translated headword: pine-[torches]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lamps, torches. "The same torches were also carrying light for her bridal chamber, and revealing a way below as she perished."[1]
And [there is] a proverb: "in the manner of a pine," [used] in reference to those who perish utterly. Since a pine, once cut, no longer sends up a shoot.[2]
Greek Original:*peu=kai: lampa/des, da=|des. ai( d' au)tai\ kai\ fe/ggos e)da|dou/xoun peri\ pastw=| peu=kai, kai\ fqime/nh| ne/rqen e)/fainon o(do/n. kai\ paroimi/a: *peu/khs tro/pon, e)pi\ tw=n panwleqri/a| a)pollume/nwn. e)pei\ h( peu/kh kopei=sa ou)k a)ni/hsin e)/ti blasto/n.
Notes:
The headword, a nominative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. For this sense of
peu/kh, see LSJ s.v., II.1.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.182.7-8 (Meleager [
Author,
Myth]).
[2] cf.
Zenobius 5.76,
Diogenianus 7.49, and other paroemiographers.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 February 2012@01:01:09.
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