Πύσει

will cause to rot, will rot

Translated by William Hutton12 Sep 2013Vetting: high3 revisions

3 notes · 41 words

[Meaning he/she/it] will cause to putrefy.¹ Homer [writes]: "the land will rot your bones as you lie in Troy."² It must be pointed out that when people died in a foreign land, their bones were not taken back to their homelands.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πύσει· σήψει. Ὅμηρος· σέο δ' ὀστέα πύσει ἄρουρα, κειμένου ἐν Τροίῃ. σημειωτέον, ὅτι τῶν ἐπὶ ξένης τελευτώντων οὐκ ἀπεκομίζετο τὰ ὀστᾶ εἰς τὰς πατρίδας.

Betacode

*pu/sei: sh/yei. *(/omhros: se/o d' o)ste/a pu/sei a)/roura, keime/nou e)n *troi/h|. shmeiwte/on, o(/ti tw=n e)pi\ ce/nhs teleutw/ntwn ou)k a)pekomi/zeto ta\ o)sta= ei)s ta\s patri/das.

Notes (3)

The headword is future indicative active, third person singular, of pu/qw ('rot'). The glosses and comments are drawn from commentary to the passage from Homer that is quoted (see n. 2); cf. pi 3138.
1= Apollonius Sophistes, Homeric Lexicon 137.19; Hesychius pi4479. ↩
2Homer, Iliad 4.174-5. ↩
3For copious material on this topic, see W.K. Pritchett, The Greek State at War IV (Berkeley & Los Angeles 1985) chapter 2. ↩

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π3251Πυρφόροςfire-bearer π3252Πυρφόροςfire-bearer, fire-thrower π3253Πύσειwill cause to rot, will rot π3254Πύσμαenquiry π3255Πύσματαinquiries

Revision history3 revisions · last 24 Oct 2013

24 Oct 2013another note and keyword — David Whitehead
12 Sep 2013tweaked headword — William Hutton
12 Sep 2013x-ref; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
12 Sep 2013Translated — William Hutton

Translation

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