Ὦχρος

pallor

Translated by David Whitehead23 May 2007Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

[Meaning] paleness.¹
In the Epigrams: "when I saw Melite, pallor took hold of me".²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὦχρος· ὠχρίασις. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι· ὡς εἶδον Μελίτην, ὦχρός μ' ἕλε.

Betacode

*)=wxros: w)xri/asis. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: w(s ei)=don *meli/thn, w)=xro/s m' e(/le.

cf. omega 288.
1Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and see also the scholia on homer, Iliad 3.35. ↩
2Greek Anthology 5.242.1 (Eratosthenes Scholasticus), the sense of the poet's subsequent suggestive metaphors is not lost on Melite. ↩

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