Ἄπια

pears

Translated by Catharine Roth26 May 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

1 note · 24 words

A kind of fruit.
See also under Antiphanes.¹
Elsewhere it is written, that the fruit [is] apia, but apios and apioi [are] the trees.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄπια· εἶδος ὀπώρας. καὶ ζήτει ἐν τῷ Ἀντιφάνης. ἑτέρωθι γράφεται, ὅτι ἄπια ἡ ὀπώρα· ἡ ἄπιος δὲ καὶ ἄπιοι, τὰ δένδρα.

Betacode

*)/apia: ei)=dos o)pw/ras. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| *)antifa/nhs. e(te/rwqi gra/fetai, o(/ti a)/pia h( o)pw/ra: h( a)/pios de\ kai\ a)/pioi, ta\ de/ndra.

[1] alpha 2735 (this comic poet dies after being struck by a pear).
2Apia (neuter plural) should be the fruit, apios (feminine, second declension; plural apioi) the pear-tree itself. See already alpha 3194 and alpha 3195. LSJ entries at web addresses 1 & 2 for a)/pion and a)/pios (A).

Revision history8 revisions · last 11 Oct 2014

pears

Translated by Catharine Roth26 May 2000Vetting: high8 revisions

1 note · 24 words

A kind of fruit.
See also under Antiphanes.¹
Elsewhere it is written, that the fruit [is] apia, but apios and apioi [are] the trees.²

Betacode

*)/apia: ei)=dos o)pw/ras. kai\ zh/tei e)n tw=| *)antifa/nhs. e(te/rwqi gra/fetai, o(/ti a)/pia h( o)pw/ra: h( a)/pios de\ kai\ a)/pioi, ta\ de/ndra.

[1] alpha 2735 (this comic poet dies after being struck by a pear).
2Apia (neuter plural) should be the fruit, apios (feminine, second declension; plural apioi) the pear-tree itself. See already alpha 3194 and alpha 3195. LSJ entries at web addresses 1 & 2 for a)/pion and a)/pios (A).

Revision history8 revisions · last 11 Oct 2014