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Headword:
*pe/pones
Adler number: pi,1013
Translated headword: soft
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who/which are] dissolute, weak.[1]
In the Epigrams: "so that he may winnow very quickly the fruit from soft ears."[2] Meaning ripe [ones].
Greek Original:*pe/pones: e)/klutoi, a)sqenei=s. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: o)/fra ta/xista likmh/sh| pepo/nwn karpo\n a)p' a)staxu/wn. a)nti\ tou= w(ri/mwn.
Notes:
[1] =
Synagoge,
Photius pi611 Theodoridis; ultimately from commentary to
Homer,
Iliad 2.235 and/or 13.120, where this form of the word (nominative/vocative plural) appears, and in the pejorative sense indicated here. (Elsewhere in
Homer the word appears with the positive connotation of 'mellow' or 'gentle'; and cf.
pi 1012.)
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.53.4 (=
Bacchylides 2.4 Irigoin). See another excerpt from this epigram at
pi 1632.
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 September 2011@09:15:24.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplemented tr; x-ref; another keyword; cosmetics) on 20 September 2011@10:39:18.
David Whitehead on 23 September 2013@04:52:44.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 30 June 2023@13:05:37.
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