Ἡμερόκοιτος

day-sleeper

Translated by Catharine Roth28 Mar 2005Vetting: high4 revisions

3 words

[Meaning] a thief.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἡμερόκοιτος· ὁ κλέπτης.

Betacode

*(hmero/koitos: o( kle/pths.

Same entry in Hesychius. The headword is an epithet of a thief at Hesiod, Works and Days 605. Also found in the form h(merokoi/ths; and cf. the Doric forms a(mero/koitos (Euripides, Cyclops 58) and a(merokoi/ths (Hesychius alpha3603, about a kind of fish).

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