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Headword: *)ai/+cas
Adler number: alpha,687
Translated headword: having darted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] having rushed.[1]
"Having darted into the coop sheltering your chicks, a four-coiled serpent deprived you of your young."[2]
Greek Original:
*)ai/+cas: o(rmh/sas. a)i/+cas e)/ntosqe neossoko/moio kalih=s no/sfisen w)di/nwn tetrae/liktos o)/fis.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in Hesychius alpha2013, where Latte identifies the headword -- aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of a)i/ssw (cf. alpha 691 and more broadly alpha 697, alpha 700) -- as quoted from Homer, Iliad 5.81.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.210.3-4 (Antipater of Sidon), addressed to a swallow whose nestlings were eaten by a snake; again (more briefly) at tau 390; cf. Gow and Page, vol. I (32), vol. II (84), and further excerpts from this epigram at epsilon 3246, eta 251, eta 525, and kappa 1654 (which contains an English translation of the complete epigram in its n.1).
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)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 November 1999@22:35:28.
Vetted by:
Gregory Hays (Revised translation, added note, added keyword, raised status.) on 15 November 2000@22:17:27.
Gregory Hays on 15 November 2000@22:18:05.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 13 May 2002@05:55:12.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaks) on 16 January 2012@08:42:57.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 16 January 2012@17:04:32.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 21 December 2013@01:12:11.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 22 December 2013@03:56:35.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; another keyword) on 1 May 2015@07:40:12.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 16 January 2019@23:10:05.
Ronald Allen (tweak n.2) on 18 January 2019@13:50:20.
Ronald Allen (further expanded n.2) on 28 January 2019@13:15:01.

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