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Headword: *)aka/manta
Adler number: alpha,790
Translated headword: untiring
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who/which is] inexhaustible.
"Untiring destroyer of grape shoots, a boar".[1]
Greek Original:
*)aka/manta: a)katapo/nhton. botru/wn a)ka/manta futw=n lwbh/tora ka/pron.
Notes:
The headword adjective (related to kappa 286) is in the accusative case. It might be extracted from the quotation given, though there are numerous other possibilities, beginning with Homer.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.168.1 (Paul the Silentiary); again at lambda 723. See further extracts from this epigram, in which Xenophilus kills the boar and dedicates its hide to Pan, at alpha 748 and epsilon 1100.
Keywords: agriculture; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 January 2000@23:36:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 25 January 2001@09:33:01.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 23 May 2002@07:41:31.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keyword) on 20 June 2009@23:18:08.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 22 January 2012@10:00:05.
David Whitehead on 3 May 2015@10:35:41.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 17 June 2020@18:39:01.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added cross-references, added keyword) on 30 July 2023@13:27:20.
Ronald Allen (corrected cross-reference n.1) on 30 July 2023@19:35:50.

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