Ἀέροψ
aerops, bee-eater
Translated by Frederick Williams20 Oct 2000Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
is declined [with the genitive] a)e/ropos .
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀέροψ, Ἀέροπος κλίνεται.
Betacode
*)ae/roy, *)ae/ropos kli/netai.
Notes
- A Boeotian name for the bird merops (bee-eater, Merops apiaster): see the two LSJ entries at web address 1 and web address 2. Mentioned in a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 1354.
Hesychius glosses Aeropes as an ethnic name from Troezen (tau 1099) and Macedonia, as well as the name of a bird. Chantraine s.v. associates it with a series of avian and ethnic names with the ending -ops, which he regards as Macedonian.