Ὄα

oa, service-tree

Translated by Catharine Roth30 Sep 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 18 words

A kind of tree producing fruits on the upper branches, resembling small apples.¹
[Its] fruit [is] h( o)/a.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὄα· ἀκροδρύων εἶδος, μήλοις μικροῖς ἐμφερές. ὀπώρα, ἡ ὄα.

Betacode

*)/oa: a)krodru/wn ei)=dos, mh/lois mikroi=s e)mfere/s. o)pw/ra, h( o)/a.

Sorbus domestica. Manuscripts of Theophrastus have various spellings of the tree-name: see LSJ s.v. o)/a (A), at web address 1.
1Same glossing in Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and Photius omicron1 Theodoridis; similarly Hesychius omicron2 and elsewhere. ↩
2The point of this addendum to the entry is unclear. The fruit should be to\ o)/on (also variously spelled), 'service-berry' or 'sorb-apple', mentioned at Plato, Symposium 190D. For opora in a more general sense cf. omicron 481, omicron 482, omicron 483, omicron 484. ↩

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