καὶ Πτητικὰ ζῷα
would fly
Translated by William Hutton27 Sep 2013Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πτῆται· πέτεται. καὶ Πτητικὰ ζῷα, τὰ πετόμενα.
Betacode
*pth=tai: pe/tetai. kai\ *pthtika\ zw=|a, ta\ peto/mena.
Notes (2)
- NB: the SOL headword is, wrongly, the supplementary one of the entry; it ought to be
pth=tai (on which see next note). - 1= Synagoge pi760, Photius pi1475 Theodoridis; cf. Hesychius pi4225. From commentary on Homer, Iliad 15.170, where
pth=tai occurs (its only attestation outside commentary and lexicography) in a meteorological image. The headwordpth=tai is subjunctive -- registered under LSJ s.v.pe/tomai , the present glossing verb -- and Theodoridis notes with sympathy the view of Lobeck and Dindorf that the gloss, transmitted aspe/tetai , ought actually to bepe/thtai . ↩ - 2Phrase probably quoted from Aristotle or Theophrastus (though 'animals' is usually left implicit). Addendum lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF. ↩
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Revision history2 revisions · last 22 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton