ᾨά

eggs

Translated by David Whitehead31 Dec 2003Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 17 words

Translation

The offspring of domestic birds.1
Interpretation of a dream: to digest and to eat eggs signifies sorrows.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

ᾨά· τὰ ἐκ τῶν κατοικιδίων ὀρνίθων γεννώμενα. λύσις ὀνείρου· ᾠὰ κρατεῖν ἔσθειν τε σημαίνει λύπας.

Betacode
*)w|a/: ta\ e)k tw=n katoikidi/wn o)rni/qwn gennw/mena. lu/sis o)nei/rou: w)|a\ kratei=n e)/sqein te shmai/nei lu/pas. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1For domestic birds cf. nu 215, phi 644. ↩
  2. 2From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to Astrampsychos (alpha 4251). For the 'digest' sense of krate/w see generally LSJ s.v. II.3.b. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 30 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. tweaks — David Whitehead
  3. more keywords — David Whitehead
  4. another note — David Whitehead
  5. set status — Catharine Roth
  6. Translated — David Whitehead

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