Προβατεύς

flocksman, herdsman

Translated by David Whitehead3 May 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 17 words

Translation

[Meaning] the shepherd of flocks/herds.1
Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural] probate/wn, [meaning] of rural folk.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Προβατεύς· ὁ τῶν προβάτων ποιμήν. καὶ Προβατέων, χωρικῶν ἀνθρώπων.

Betacode
*probateu/s: o( tw=n proba/twn poimh/n. kai\ *probate/wn, xwrikw=n a)nqrw/pwn. 

Notes (2)

  1. cf. generally pi 2330, pi 2332.
  2. 1Reported as the title of a comedy of Antiphanes (alpha 2734, alpha 2735). ↩
  3. 2Extracted from somewhere, evidently. Same gloss in the Ambrosian Lexicon, according to Adler. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 24 May 2016
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  3. x-refs — David Whitehead
  4. added notes and keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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