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Headword:
*)oneiropolei=
Adler number: omicron,346
Translated headword: is dreaming
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] is fantasizing.[1]
"So there is no need for the Saracens to dream these things."[2]
There is a difference between o)neiropolei=n and o)neirw/ssein: o)neiropolei=n [is said] in reference to those who see visions in sleep, but o)neirw/ssein [is said in reference] to those who emit semen involuntarily, which happens to those who are seized by love, or who experience this because of foods or the activity of spirits.[3]
Greek Original:*)oneiropolei=: fanta/zetai. ou) xrew\n ou)=n tau=ta tou\s *sara- khnou\s o)neiropolei=n. *)oneiropolei=n tou= o)neirw/ssein dienh/noxe: to\ me\n o)neiropolei=n e)pi\ tw=n e)nu/pnion o(rw/ntwn, to\ de\ o)neirw/ssein e)pi\ tw=n au)toma/tws gonh\n a)fie/ntwn: o(/per oi( e)rwto/lhptoi pa/sxousin, h)\ a)po\ brwma/twn h)\ a)po\ daimo/nwn e)nergei/as tou=to pa/sxontes.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius omicron335 Theodoridis.The headword -- third person singular, present indicative, of
o)neiropole/w -- is taken to be quoted from
Aristophanes: see n.3 below.
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 9.1 Blockley. On the Saracens, see generally
sigma 112.
[3] From a scholion on
Aristophanes,
Clouds 15, where Strepsiades says his son "is dreaming horses" (
o)neiropolei= i(/ppous): web address 1. See also
omicron 350.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2009@02:45:57.
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