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Ἐρωδιός · heron (ε 3061) · Suda

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Near ε3061

ε3057let them go [to ruin]
ε3058Erouloi, Heruli
ε3059they are broken
ε3060I was distributing alms, they were distributing alms
ε3061heron
ε3062eroeis
ε3063force, impulse, quick motion, rush
ε3064forcing back
ε3065love-maddened

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε3061

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Ἐρωδιός

heron

Translated by David Whitehead9 Oct 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

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2 notes · 29 words

Translation

A kind of bird.¹ The so-called stork.²
Or [a bird] similar to it. As being a sort of e(lwdio/s, from spending time e)n e(/lesi, that is in wet locales.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐρωδιός· εἶδος ὀρνέου. ὁ πελαργὸς λεγόμενος. ἢ ὅμοιος αὐτῷ. ἑλωδιός τις ὤν, παρὰ τὸ ἐν ἕλεσι διατρίβειν, τουτέστι καθύγροις τόποις.

Betacode

*)erwdio/s: ei)=dos o)rne/ou. o( pelargo\s lego/menos. h)\ o(/moios au)tw=|. e(lwdio/s tis w)/n, para\ to\ e)n e(/lesi diatri/bein, toute/sti kaqu/grois to/pois.

Notes (2)

[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 10.274, where it is mentioned (web address 1). See generally LSJ s.v.
2Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon (1800). For storks cf. pi 930, pi 931. ↩
3(For e(/los see epsilon 900.) Similarly in other lexica and grammars.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Neighbouring entries

ε3059Ἐρώγασινthey are broken ε3060ἘρόγευονI was distributing alms, they were distributing alms ε3061Ἐρωδιόςheron ε3062Ἐρώειςeroeis ε3063Ἐρωήforce, impulse, quick motion, rush

Revision history5 revisions · last 7 Dec 2017

7 Dec 2017tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
14 Feb 2016further notes — David Whitehead
29 Oct 2012expanded note — David Whitehead
11 Oct 2005tweaked tr; more x-refs — David Whitehead
10 Oct 2005added cross-reference and link, set status — Catharine Roth
9 Oct 2005Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐρωδιός (Adler number epsilon 3061), trans. David Whitehead, 9 Oct 2005. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3061

Translation by David Whitehead for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗