Πέμπελος

aged

Translated by David Whitehead4 Mar 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

21 words

[Referring to] an old man. Also an old woman. [sc. The term pempelos comes] from being sent [pempesthai] into the underworld.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πέμπελος· γέρων. καὶ γραῦς. παρὰ τὸ πέμπεσθαι εἰς τὸν ᾅδην.

Betacode

*pe/mpelos: ge/rwn. kai\ grau=s. para\ to\ pe/mpesqai ei)s to\n a(/|dhn.

cf. the scholia to Lycophron, Alexandra 826, where this word occurs (of an old woman). Hesychius s.v. pe/mpelon has other lines of explanation.
See also under tau 1157.

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