Μηλοβοτέα
sheep-grazing
Translated by David Whitehead10 Jul 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] land [that is] thriving, devoted to pasturage for flocks.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μηλοβοτέα· γῆν εὐτραφῆ, ἀνειμένην εἰς νομὴν προβάτοις.
Betacode
*mhlobote/a: gh=n eu)trafh=, a)neime/nhn ei)s nomh\n proba/tois.
Notes
- Accusative singular of this adjective (not in LSJ, and nominative uncertain). Same or similar entry elsewhere: see the references at Photius mu388 Theodoridis, where the editor obelizes the headword
mhlobote/a and indicates in the apparatus his opinion (following Schleusner) that it is a corruption ofmhlo/boton .
cf. generally mu 930, mu 931.
Linked from2 entries
- μ930Μηλοβοτήρsheep-grazer[Meraning] the shepherd of the flocks. Also [sc. attested is] mhlono/mos, [meaning] the same.
- μ931Μηλόβοτος χώραsheep-pasturage territory[Meaning territory] denuded of its inhabitants by the enemy, and occupied by farm-animals. The word [mhlo/botos] also occurs in Lycurgus, in the [speech] Against Autokles: "[...] but also he gave up Attica to…
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Revision history4 revisions · last 21 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- expanded note, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead