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Headword: Halôas
Adler number: alpha,1373
Translated headword: threshing-floors, orchards
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. The same as] a(lwni/ai, the places where grain is threshed. It is also tree-bearing ground. [The noun] a(lw|h/ [comes] from the [verb] a(loiw= with an iota. "Wasting Oeneus' orchard."[1]
But [sc. the headword] a(lwa/s [comes] from the [noun] a(/lws, without an iota.
[sc. The genitive] a(/lwnos is used, and the dative a(/lwni.
"Here by the threshing-floor, o ant, much-suffering worker, I built for you a tomb of dry clod."[2]
Greek Original:
Halôas: halônias, tous topous entha ho sitos haloatai. esti de kai hê dendrophoros gê. apo tou aloiô estin halôiê sun tôi i. ethôn Oinêos halôiên. to de halôas apo tou halôs, aneu tou i. legetai de Halônos kai halôni hê dotikê. autou soi par' halôni duêpathes ergata murmêx êrion ek bôlou dipsados ektisamên.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, quoted from Homer, Iliad 5.499 (web address 1); cf. the scholia there.
cf. generally alpha 1305, alpha 1321, alpha 1330, alpha 1372, alpha 1385.
[1] Homer Iliad 9.540 (web address 2).
[2] Greek Anthology 7.209.1-2 (generally attributed to Antipater of Sidon), epitaph for an ant; again at delta 1567; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 30), (vol. II, 79-80), and another extract from this epigram at eta 511.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; botany; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 1 June 2000@11:59:46.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 30 June 2002@03:51:09.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 1 July 2002@23:57:39.
Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 27 March 2005@00:39:48.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 10 February 2012@03:52:00.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 16 March 2012@18:28:58.
Ronald Allen (added links, expanded n.2, added bibliography) on 18 July 2021@12:18:41.

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