Μινύρεται

warbles

Translated by Catharine Roth19 May 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

3 notes · 22 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] sings.1
[He/she/it] weeps, mourns, says euphoniously.2
Sophocles [writes]: "... where especially the clear-voiced nightingale warbles constantly under the green glens."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μινύρεται· ᾄδει. κλαίει, θρηνεῖ, εὐφώνως λέγει. Σοφοκλῆς· ἔνθα λίγεια μινύρεται θαμίζουσα μάλιστ' ἀηδὼν χλωραῖς ὑπὸ βήσσαις.

Betacode
*minu/retai: a)/|dei. klai/ei, qrhnei=, eu)fw/nws le/gei. *sofoklh=s: e)/nqa li/geia minu/retai qami/zousa ma/list' a)hdw\n xlwrai=s u(po\ bh/ssais. 

Notes (3)

  1. The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is third person singular of minu/romai (for a commoner variant of which see mu 1103).
  2. 1cf. scholion on Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 671 (see below). ↩
  3. 2Same or similar glossing in other lexica: see the references at Photius mu463 Theodoridis. ↩
  4. 3Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 671-673 (web address 1); choral ode welcoming Oedipus to Colonus. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 25 May 2013
  1. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. another note; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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