Ἀήμεναι

to blow

Translated by Jennifer Benedict16 Mar 2001Vetting: high4 revisions

3 words

[Meaning] to breathe.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀήμεναι· πνεῦσαι.

Betacode

*)ah/menai: pneu=sai.

Same entry in Hesychius, ps.-Zonaras and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword occurs twice in Homer: Latte on Heschius s.v. asserts that it is quoted here from Odyssey 3.156, but there may be a better match in the scholia to Iliad 23.214.
cf. generally alpha 655.