Μηλοβοτήρ

sheep-grazer

Translated by David Whitehead10 Jul 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

[Meraning] the shepherd of the flocks.¹ Also [sc. attested is] mhlono/mos, [meaning] the same.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μηλοβοτήρ· ὁ τῶν προβάτων ποιμήν. καὶ Μηλονόμος, ὁ αὐτός.

Betacode

*mhloboth/r: o( tw=n proba/twn poimh/n. kai\ *mhlono/mos, o( au)to/s.

1Epic (e.g. Homer, Iliad 18.529) noun, with same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius mu390 Theodoridis); cf. generally mu 929, mu 931. ↩
2Attested in Euripides, Cyclops 660, in hellenistic epic, and in prose authors. ↩

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