Ὀπωρώνης
fruit-merchant
Translated by Catharine Roth6 Feb 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀπωρώνης· ὁ τὰς ὀπώρας πωλῶν καὶ ἀγοράζων. μῆλόν τις διϊὼν ἥρπασε, τὸν δὲ ὀπωρώνην τοῦ ἀργυρίου ἕνεκα ἀντιλαμβανόμενον αὐτοῦ ἔχεσθαι.
Betacode
*)opwrw/nhs: o( ta\s o)pw/ras pwlw=n kai\ a)gora/zwn. mh=lo/n tis dii+w\n h(/rpase, to\n de\ o)pwrw/nhn tou= a)rguri/ou e(/neka a)ntilambano/menon au)tou= e)/xesqai.
Notes (2)
- cf. generally omicron 481, omicron 482, omicron 483.
- 1Very similar glossing in the Lexicon Patmense, commenting on the occurrence of the headword in Demosthenes 18.262 (in his tendentious biography of the young Aeschines). (Why Adler objected to Wentzel's attribution of the gloss to a rhetorical source in unclear.) Hesychius omicron1083 and Photius, Lexicon omicron425 Theodoridis, both gloss the accusative plural
o)pwrw/nas as an adjective ('bought for sale'). ↩ - 2Quotation (lacking in ms F) unidentifiable. (Adler attributes it, on no discernible basis, to Aelian.) ↩
Linked from2 entries
- ο1Ὄαoa, service-treeA kind of tree producing fruits on the upper branches, resembling small apples. [Its] fruit [is] h( o)/a.
- ο481ὈπώραfruitAlso [sc. attested is the related adjective] o)pwri/mwn. "He cut down the royal/imperial gardens, which were very full of fruit trees." Note that those who eat a lot of fruit over time are harmed: see the treatment [sc.…
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 May 2016
- codings — David Whitehead
- recast n.1; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth