Ὀστολογεῖν
to gather bones [of the dead]
Translated by Catharine Roth25 May 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] to examine, to investigate.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀστολογεῖν· ἐξετάζειν, ἐξερευνᾶν.
Betacode
*)ostologei=n: e)ceta/zein, e)cereuna=n.
Notes
- A very rare verb, and, where found, usually used literally. Isaeus 4.19 has
w)stolo/ghsen ; Photius, Lexicon omicron567 Theodoridis glosses the present infinitive (as here) as 'to collect bones' (o)sta= sulle/gein ), and the Lexica Segueriana has something very similar for the aorist infinitive (probably quoted from Menander, Aspis 77). How it acquired the transferred sense claimed here is not clear.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 20 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- further expansion of note; another keyword — David Whitehead
- augmented note and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth