Λοιμεύεται
is pestilent
Translated by David Whitehead28 Jun 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] is creating ruin, is harming.
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]loimo/s , [meaning] a ruin-creating disease.
"A bad atmospheric mixture and a pestilential turn in the weather is called a katastasis".1
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
"A bad atmospheric mixture and a pestilential turn in the weather is called a katastasis".1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λοιμεύεται· φθοροποιεῖ, βλάπτει. καὶ Λοιμός, ἡ φθοροποιὸς νόσος. δυσκρασία ἀέρος καὶ τροπὴ λοιμικὴ κατάστασις λέγεται.
Betacode
*loimeu/etai: fqoropoiei=, bla/ptei. kai\ *loimo/s, h( fqoropoio\s no/sos. duskrasi/a a)e/ros kai\ troph\ loimikh\ kata/stasis le/getai.
Notes (1)
- Same or similar entry elsewhere: see the references at Photius lambda390 Theodoridis. The headword is third person singular, present indicative, of the rare verb
loimeu/omai . It would seem to be quoted from somewhere, but more probably it is mis-quoted from Proverbs 19.19 LXX, which has the corresponding subjunctive,loimeu/htai ; cf. Hesychius s.v. - 1Tentatively attributed by Adler to an ancient Life of Pythagoras. For 'bad mixture' cf. under nu 495. For the term katastasis see kappa 788 -- but for the sense of it used here, see LSJ s.v., II.2. ↩
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- Translated — David Whitehead