Φλῶρος
floros
Translated by Ronald Allen7 Feb 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φλόρος· τὸ ὄρνεον, διὰ τοῦ ο μικροῦ· Φλῶρος δὲ ὄνομα κύριον. διὰ τοῦ ω μεγάλου.
Betacode
*flo/ros: to\ o)/rneon, dia\ tou= o mikrou=: *flw=ros de\ o)/noma ku/rion. dia\ tou= w mega/lou.
Notes (2)
- The headword, a masculine noun in the nominative singular, is attested only here and at Theognostus, Canones 384.6. The latter passage identifies it as a proper name, with omicron as the first vowel. However, this appears to be a lexicographical error, as
*flw=ros with an omega is a widely attested proper name. The Suda appears to be correct: spelled with an omicron (not omega as in the scholia to Oppian, Halieutica 1.157), this is the name of an Old World bird; see n. 1 below. - 1Probably the Bee-Eater (Merops apiaster; Peterson, p. 140) or the Golden Oriole (Oriolus oriolus; ibid., p. 189), both of which are summer visitors to Europe; see LSJ s.v. ↩
- 2The proper name is similarly glossed by ps.-Zonaras 1813.20 (Tittmann) and ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 146. Adler also cites the Ambrosian Lexicon (356). One prominent Phloros was an aristocrat and senator in Constantinople who became a monk and founded a monastery (cf. iota 447 end) after his family died during a pestilence (late C6 CE); Hatlie, p. 187. ↩
References
R.T. Peterson, G. Mountfort, and P.A.D. Hollom, A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe, 4th edn., Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1983
P. Hatlie, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople, c. 350-850, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
P. Hatlie, The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople, c. 350-850, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008
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Revision history5 revisions · last 31 May 2016
- coding and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- typo — Catharine Roth
- expanded primary note; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen