Γυπαρίοις
in vulture-roosts
Translated by William Hutton13 Jul 2003Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
Meaning in lairs and nests and narrow places. Crates says that they used to call any narrow cubby-hole a 'vulture-nest'. Aristophanes [writes]: "this man living in wine-pots and vulture-roosts and siloes."1
Also [sc. attested are]gupaietou/s ["vulture-eagles"].2
Also [sc. attested are]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Γυπαρίοις· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐν φωλεοῖς καὶ καλιαῖς καὶ στενοῖς χωρίοις. Κράτης δέ φησιν, ὅτι πᾶσαν στενὴν κατάδυσιν γύπας ὠνόμαζον. Ἀριστοφάνης· οἰκοῦντα τοῦτον ἐν πιθάκναις καὶ γυπαρίοις καὶ πυργιδίοις. καὶ Γυπαιετούς.
Betacode
*gupari/ois: a)nti\ tou= e)n fwleoi=s kai\ kaliai=s kai\ stenoi=s xwri/ois. *kra/ths de/ fhsin, o(/ti pa=san stenh\n kata/dusin gu/pas w)no/mazon. *)aristofa/nhs: oi)kou=nta tou=ton e)n piqa/knais kai\ gupari/ois kai\ purgidi/ois. kai\ *gupaietou/s.
Notes (2)
- 1Aristophanes, Knights 792-3 (web address 1), with scholia thereto as the source of the foregoing comments. ('Crates' is the hellenistic scholar of that name: kappa 2342, OCD(4) s.v. Crates(3).) ↩
- 2Here in the accusative plural, so quoted from somewhere (unidentifiable); not otherwise attested. ↩
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