Ὀρεσκῷος

mountain-sleeping

Translated by William Hutton23 Feb 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

[Applicable to] one that dwells in the mountains.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀρεσκῷος· ὁ ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσι διατρίβων.

Betacode

*)oreskw=|os: o( e)n toi=s o)/resi diatri/bwn.

An adjective frequently applied to various animals in epic poetry. For this gloss, cf. (besides omicron 537) the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.268 (dative plural) and Odyssey 9.155 (accusative plural); also Etymologicum Magnum 630.11 and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon.

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