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Headword:
*xremeti/zei
Adler number: chi,455
Translated headword: snorts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] makes a sound with the mouth, sneezes; also [sc. attested is] xre/mptetai, [used] similarly.[1]
"No one could find the beginning from which the tale was discovered and the one who first discovered it any more than if someone were to try to detect the first man who sneezed or snorted."[2]
Greek Original:*xremeti/zei: h)=xon tw=| sto/mati a)potelei=, pta/rnutai: kai\ xre/mptetai, o(moi/ws. th\n a)rxh/n, o(po/qen eu(re/qh o( mu=qos kai\ o(/stis prw=tos e)feu=ren, ou) ma=llon eu(/roi tis a)/n, h)\ ei)/ tis e)pixeirh/seie to\n prw=ton ptare/nta h)\ xremya/menon a)nazhtei=n.
Notes:
The headword must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps the Septuagint (Ecclesiasticus 33:6, where it us used of a horse).
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] Julian, Orations 7.205c.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 April 2008@19:24:11.
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