Μοσχεύματα
offsets, slips, planted suckers
Translated by Ronald Allen22 Jul 2009Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] tender plants of trees and of vegetables.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μοσχεύματα· ἁπαλὰ φυτὰ δένδρων καὶ λαχάνων.
Betacode
*mosxeu/mata: a(pala\ futa\ de/ndrwn kai\ laxa/nwn.
Notes (1)
- The headword is a neuter noun (see LSJ s.v.
mo/sxeuma ) in the nominative/vocative/accusative plural. If it has been directly quoted from somewhere, the possibilities include Theophrastus, On the Causes of Plants 3.11.5, where it is used to describe the preferred type of well-rooted offsets for propagating trees in wet regions. But more probably, as noted by Adler (and cf. Latte on Hesychius mu1709 s.v.), it was generated by the genitive plural in Wisdom of Solomon 4.3 LXX. - 1The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (mu546 Theodoridis), Synagoge mu272, and Lexica Segueriana 303.24; cf. Bekker 280.18, and cognates at mu 1274, mu 1275, mu 1276, and mu 1277. ↩
References
I. Bekker, ed., Anecdota Graeca, vol. I, Graz: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1965
Linked from5 entries
- μ760Μετεμόσχευσεtransplanted[Meaning he/she/it] planted in a different place.
- μ1274Μοσχεύωνplanting young shoots[Meaning someone who is] transplanting. Eunapius [writes]: "by thus remaining, these men were cultivating the war." Meaning they were bringing [it] back, rejuvenating [it].
- μ1275Μόσχιαcuttings, shoots[Meaning] tender plants.
- μ1276Μοσχίδια σύκωνyoung shootlets of figsThus young fig trees are called. The young growths [are called] moschidia. Also the tender and young withy [is called a] shoot. Homer [writes]: "with withy shoots."
- μ1277Μόσχονshoot, twig[Meaning] soft to the touch/tender.
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- Translated — Ronald Allen