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Headword:
*oi)strei=
Adler number: omicroniota,178
Translated headword: stings
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] inflames, maddens.[1]
Appian [writes]: "in reality everyone experienced a stinging impulse and enthusiasm [to act] against the barbarians".[2]
And elsewhere: "[...] and he did these things just like someone who had been stung and was drunk".[3]
And
Aelian [writes]: "and
Herodotus was right to set no store by provocations and madnesses concerning women".[4]
*oi)strei=: e)reqi/zei, e)kmai/nei. *)appiano/s: tw=| o)/nti pa=sin oi)strw/dhs e)ne/pipten o(rmh\ kai\ proqumi/a kata\ tw=n barba/rwn. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ tau=ta me\n e)/drasen w(/sper oi)strhqei\s kai\ ka/toinos geno/menos. kai\ *ai)liano/s: kai\ kalw=s *(hro/dotos ta\s u(pe\r tw=n gunaikw=n oi)strh/seis te kai\ mani/as par' ou)de\n e)ti/qeto.
Notes:
cf.
omicroniota 179,
omicroniota 180,
omicroniota 181.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron158 Theodoridis). The headword -- third person singular, present indicative active, of the verb
oi)stre/w -- must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with
Theocritus,
Idylls 6.28.
[2] Appian,
Roman History fr. 9.
[3] This relates to Alexander the Great's murderous quarrel with 'Black' Clitus. See the note at
mu 720, the first half of the quotation (from
Aelian, if Favuzzi is right).
[4]
Aelian fr. 125a Domingo-Forasté (part of 122 Hercher), on
Herodotus 1.4.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 June 2005@06:26:24.
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