ε2093Ἐπετείους ὑμᾶς ὄντας
you being yearly
He made a metaphor from those birds that do not stay in one place, but are borne in flight. That is, [they are] fickle, lightly-esteeming, not always remaining in the same circumstances, fastidious.
Ἐπετείους ὑμᾶς ὄντας· ἀπὸ τῶν οἰωνῶν μετήνεγκε τῶν μὴ μονίμων ὄντων, ἀλλὰ φερομένων τῇ πτήσει. τουτέστιν εὐμεταβλήτους, ὀλιγώρους, μὴ διαμένοντας ἐν τοῖς αὐτοῖς ἀεί, ἁψικόρους.
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