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Headword:
*xai/rein
Adler number: chi,163
Translated headword: to say 'hello'
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Just like birds, [which] learn these things from men. Birds exclaim "hello!" and "good luck!" and "[May] Zeus [be] sweet!" and these sorts of things,[1] neither knowing what they are saying nor being well-disposed towards men, but being trained in speech.
Greek Original:*xai/rein: w(/sper oi( o)/rniqes, a(\ manqa/nousi para\ tw=n a)nqrw/pwn. to\ xai=re kai\ to\ eu)= pra/ttois kai\ to\ *zeu\s i(/lews kai\ ta\ toiau=ta oi( o)/rniqes eu)/xontai, ou)/te ei)do/tes o(/ ti le/gousin, ou)/te diakei/menoi pro\s tou\s a)nqrw/pous, a)lla\ e)rruqmisme/noi th\n glw=ttan.
Notes:
Philostratus,
Life of Apollonius of Tyana 1.7.
The headword is
xai/rein, the present active infinitive of
xai/rw. The usual use is the imperative as
xai=re in the gloss ("hello!"). It was also used for "Good-bye". See also
chi 162.
[1] "Good luck!" is a translation of
eu)= pra/ttois ("may you do well"; see
epsilon 3605).
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 March 2008@14:07:56.
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