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Headword:
*spermolo/gos
Adler number: sigma,922
Translated headword: seedpicker
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] loudmouth, babbler, and one collecting the seeds(?).[1]
Seedpicker is the name for a small, jackdaw-like bird named, it seems, from [sc. its habit of] collecting seeds. So from this, and perhaps from living off other people, the base and readily despicable fellow is described as a seedpicker.[2]
Greek Original:*spermolo/gos: eu)rulo/gos, a)krito/muqos, kai\ o( ta\ spe/rmata sulle/gwn. *spermolo/gos le/getai mikro\n o)rniqa/rion koloiw=des, spermolo/gos w)nomasme/non: e)/oike de\ a)po\ tou= ta\ spe/rmata a)nale/gein. le/getai ou)=n a)po\ tou/tou o( eu)telh\s kai\ eu)katafro/nhtos a)/nqrwpos, kai\ i)/sws a)po\ tw=n a)llotri/wn diazw=n, spermolo/gos.
Notes:
[1] Same material in
Photius and elsewhere, probably generated by
Demosthenes (see next note), but see also e.g.
Acts 17.18.
[2] Abridged from Harpokration s.v., glossing the use of the word in
Demosthenes 18.127 (web address 1). See also the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Birds 579, where the genitive plural of the headword occurs.
Web address 1
Keywords: botany; Christianity; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; imagery; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@08:31:24.
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