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Headword: *metana/stria
Adler number: mu,715
Translated headword: wanderer
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Referring to] the partridge.[1] "No longer, my partridge, daring wanderer of crags, does a wicker house woven of fine twigs hold you."[2]
Greek Original:
*metana/stria: h( pe/rdic. ou)ke/ti mou, tlh=mon skope/lwn metana/stria pe/rdic, plekto\s leptale/ois oi)=kos e)/xei se lu/gois.
Notes:
The headword is a feminine noun corresponding to metana/sths (mu 714); it is quoted presumably from the couplet which follows.
[1] cf. pi 1041.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.204.1-2 (Agathias Scholasticus), an epitaph for the poet's partridge. See additional quotes from this epigram at alpha 2985, alphaiota 159, eta 513, and theta 15.
See also in Latin poetry: Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.241; Vergil, Aeneid 6.14, Georgics 1.143.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; imagery; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Max Eager on 11 August 2009@15:32:22.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, added keywords, set status) on 12 August 2009@01:15:28.
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 August 2009@03:26:48.
David Whitehead on 17 May 2013@07:49:04.
David Whitehead (codings) on 18 May 2016@04:04:57.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 17 August 2020@19:02:21.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added cross-references) on 5 September 2023@23:46:00.

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