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Headword: *puri/nw| si/tw|
Adler number: pi,3221
Translated headword: with wheaten grain
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"Cranes were grazing in a farmer's land recently sown with wheaten grain."[1]
For puro\s ['wheat'] [is] the grain.[2] Homer: "wheats and einkorns and wide-growing white barley."[3]
"They would be living on nothing but hares [...] and beestings and pot cheese, enjoying things worthy of the land and of the trophy at Marathon."[4]
Greek Original:
*puri/nw| si/tw|: ge/ranoi gewrgou= katene/monto xw/rhn e)sparme/nhn newsti\ puri/nw| si/tw|. *puro\s ga\r o( si=tos. *(/omhros: puroi/ te zeiai/ te i)d' eu)rufue\s kri= leuko/n. e)/zwn e)n pa=si lagw/|ois kai\ pu/w| kai\ puria/th|, a)/cia th=s gh=s a)polau/ontes kai\ tou= 'n *maraqw=ni tropai/ou.
Notes:
For the headword phrase (in the dative case, as in the first quotation) Adler compares Lexicon Ambrosianum 1483.
[1] Babrius 26.1-2.
[2] A subsidiary entry on the noun (nominative singular) from which the adjective in the headword phrase derives; cf. [Herodian], Epimerismi 115.9, Hesychius pi4444. Lemma and gloss are repeated at pi 3230, and this part of the entry including the quotation from Homer is repeated at pi 3234; cf. sigma 502, eta 399.
[3] Homer, Odyssey 4.604. Here we have the nominative plural form of the noun, puroi/ ('wheats').
[4] Aristophanes, Wasps 709-11 (here abridged). The quotation does not contain the headword or anything related. Perhaps the compiler thought from the sound of the words that the 'beestings' (puo/s) and/or the 'pot cheese' (puria/th) had something to do with wheat (puro/s). 'The trophy at Marathon' refers to the great victory over the invading Persians, 68 years earlier.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 15 September 2013@13:38:56.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 15 September 2013@18:10:42.
David Whitehead (expanded n.4; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 September 2013@03:22:41.
William Hutton (typo) on 16 September 2013@04:06:17.
David Whitehead on 24 October 2013@05:55:20.
David Whitehead (typo) on 25 May 2016@05:28:18.

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