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Headword: Amnoi tous tropous
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 tous tropous: anti tou praeis, euêtheis, haploi, hôs hoi krioi, ê malakoi. to gar arren probaton, hotan echêi tên mesên hêlikian, amnos kaleitai. hoi de ton eniausion arna amnon kalousin.
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.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: chronology; comedy; definition; ethics; zoology
Translated by: Oliver Phillips ✝ on 18 December 2000@16:31:04.
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David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 1 March 2001@10:46:20.
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