Ὀρεοκόμος
mountain-steward
Translated by Catharine Roth18 Jan 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] one who takes care of a mountain.1
Buto)rewko/mos ["mule-tender"] [is what they call] one who takes care of mules. For o)reu/s ["mule"] [means] a half-donkey or of [?] half-donkeys.2
Also [sc attested is the phrase]o)rikw=| zeu/gei ["with a mule-team"] meaning [with a team] of half-donkeys.3
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Also [sc attested is the phrase]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀρεοκόμος· ὁ τοῦ ὄρους ἐπιμελούμενος. Ὀρεωκόμος δὲ ὁ ἐπιμελητὴς τῶν ἡμιόνων. ὀρεὺς γὰρ ὁ ἡμίονος ἢ ἡμιόνων. καὶ Ὀρικῷ ζεύγει, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἡμιόνων.
Betacode
*)oreoko/mos: o( tou= o)/rous e)pimelou/menos. *)orewko/mos de\ o( e)pimelhth\s tw=n h(mio/nwn. o)reu\s ga\r o( h(mi/onos h)\ h(mio/nwn. kai\ *)orikw=| zeu/gei, a)nti\ tou= h(mio/nwn.
Notes (3)
- Like the next entry, this aims to distinguish mountain-words from mule-words. Chantraine is not sure why compounds of
o)reu/s have omega as a connecting vowel. - 1Adler reports a similar entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon. ↩
- 2Similar entries in other lexica (e.g. Hesychius omicron1135 s.v.
o)reioko/mos ) and in a scholion on Lucian (31.22 Rabe). Manuscripts GFM and Photius (Lexicon omicron456 Theodoridis) omit the final genitive plural phraseh)\ h(mio/nwn . ↩ - 3This phrase in the dative must be quoted from somewhere; perhaps ps.-Lucian, Amores 6.7, or (the Emperor) Julian, The Deeds of the Emperor 17.38; cf. omicron 546, omicron 562. ↩
References
P. Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, ed. 2 (Paris 2009) 788-9
Linked from3 entries
- ο532ὈρεοπολῶI wander in the mountains[Meaning] I am involved with mountains. But o)rewpolw= [means] I am involved with donkeys. [sc. The latter comes] from o)reu/s, [genitive] o)re/ws ["mule"], which means half-donkey.
- ο546Ὀρεικὸν ζεῦγοςmule yoke-team[Meaning a team] of half-donkeys.
- ο562Ὀρικὸν ζεῦγοςmule yoke-team[A team] of half-donkeys.
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