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Headword:
Xumbolon
ornin
Adler number: xi,104
Translated headword: meeting-sign omen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They call a [meeting-sign] an [omen]; since they used to make signs of those first meeting them and foretelling [something] from an encounter.
Greek Original:Xumbolon ornin phasin: epeidê sumbolous epoioun tous prôta sunantôntas kai ex apantêseôs prosêmainontas.
Notes:
The phrase "[you call] a meeting-sign an omen" occurs in
Aristophanes,
Birds 721 (web address 1), and this entry derives from the
scholia there; cf. also
xi 105.
For "meeting-sign" (and for the scope of
o)/rnis "bird," extending from bird-omen to omen of any kind) see Dunbar 456-7.
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; daily life; religion; zoology
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica â on 18 February 2000@12:55:49.
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