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Headword:
*gupari/ois
Adler number: gamma,506
Translated headword: in vulture-roosts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning in lairs and nests and narrow places.
Crates says that they used to call any narrow cubby-hole a 'vulture-nest'.
Aristophanes [writes]: "this man living in wine-pots and vulture-roosts and siloes."[1]
Also [sc. attested are]
gupaietou/s ["vulture-eagles"].[2]
*gupari/ois: a)nti\ tou= e)n fwleoi=s kai\ kaliai=s kai\ stenoi=s xwri/ois. *kra/ths de/ fhsin, o(/ti pa=san stenh\n kata/dusin gu/pas w)no/mazon. *)aristofa/nhs: oi)kou=nta tou=ton e)n piqa/knais kai\ gupari/ois kai\ purgidi/ois. kai\ *gupaietou/s.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Knights 792-3 (web address 1), with
scholia thereto as the source of the foregoing comments. ('
Crates' is the hellenistic scholar of that name:
kappa 2342, OCD(4) s.v.
Crates(3).)
[2] Here in the accusative plural, so quoted from somewhere (unidentifiable); not otherwise attested.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 13 July 2003@06:36:37.
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