Ἐπῳάζειν
to brood
Translated by Catharine Roth17 Dec 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
The [verb which means] birds sitting on their eggs.1 Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "now the hoopoe, as it seems, brooded its eggs differently, going into the coppice."2 Birds are talkative when they are brooding.3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐπῳάζειν· τὸ ἐπὶ τοῖς ᾠοῖς καθέζεσθαι τὰ ὄρνεα. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὄρνισιν· ἄλλως ἄρ' οὕποψ, ὡς ἔοικε, τὴν λόχμην ἐμβὰς ἐπῷζε. τὰ δὲ ὄρνεα ἐν τῷ ἐπῳάζειν λάλα εἰσίν.