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Headword: *yh=nes
Adler number: psi,71
Translated headword: gall-insects
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] gnats, the ones that occur in wild figs.[1]
[The ones] which make the figs ripen when wild-fig [branches] are attached to fig trees.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the expression] u(peyhnisme/nh ["caprified"] from this [process], [meaning] pregnant.[3]
Greek Original:
*yh=nes: kwnw/pia, ta\ e)n toi=s o)lu/nqois gino/mena. oi(/tines kai\ tw=n o)lu/nqwn periaptome/nwn tai=s sukai=s pepai/nousi ta\ su=ka. kai\ *(upeyhnisme/nh a)po\ tou/tou, h( e)gku/mwn.
Notes:
[1] From glosses on Herodotus 1.193 (web address 1).
[2] Perhaps from comment on Aristophanes, Birds 590 (web address 2).
[3] cf. upsilon 407.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; imagery; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 December 2005@16:45:56.
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