Περιπνέω

I blow around

Translated by Catharine Roth29 Mar 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

8 words

"A gentle breeze was blowing around these [men]."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Περιπνέω· λεπτὴ δέ τις αὖρα περιέπνει τούτους.

Betacode

*peripne/w: lepth\ de/ tis au)=ra perie/pnei tou/tous.

Entry lacking, Adler reports, in mss AFV.
One might have expected an opening grammatical comment: '[used] with an accusative'.
Adler attributes the quotation to Symeon Metaphrastes (perhaps thinking of the three youths in the Babylonian furnace; cf. beta 11).

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