Ὀρίνεται

is eager, is aroused

Translated by Robert Dyer6 May 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

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[Meaning he/she/it] is disturbed, desires.¹ "For your spirit is eager for me to work what Pyrrhus² wrought³ on Achilles' tomb."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀρίνεται· ταράσσεται, ἐπιθυμεῖ. ψυχὴ γὰρ σέο μᾶλλον ὀρίνεται, εἰσόκε ῥέξω ὅσσ' ἐπ' Ἀχιλλῆος Πύρρος ἔτευξε τάφῳ.

Betacode

*)ori/netai: tara/ssetai, e)piqumei=. yuxh\ ga\r se/o ma=llon o)ri/netai, ei)so/ke r(e/cw o(/ss' e)p' *)axillh=os *pu/rros e)/teuce ta/fw|.

The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given, part of an amusing mock-heroic epigram of Agathias Scholasticus: Greek Anthology 7.205.5-6. According to the poem, his cat has attacked and killed his pet partridge, whose spirit is waiting for the sacrifice of Polyxena - presumably the cat. The passage echoes Euripides, Hecuba 116ff. See another extract from this epigram at omicroniota 64.
1cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.4, 14.14, 15.7 (whence Etymologicum Magnum 630.15-17; Hesychius omicron1213, omicron1215, omicron1216, omicron1218, omicron1219). ↩
2Pyrrhus or Neoptolemus [Author, Myth] (cf. tau 109) sacrificed Polyxena on the tomb of his father, Achilles. ↩
3The verb e)/teuce is here an amusing epic touch (cf. tau 435, tau 375). ↩

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