Σπερμολόγος
seedpicker
Translated by David Whitehead19 Dec 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] loudmouth, babbler, and one collecting the seeds(?).1
Seedpicker is the name for a small, jackdaw-like bird named, it seems, from [sc. its habit of] collecting seeds. So from this, and perhaps from living off other people, the base and readily despicable fellow is described as a seedpicker.2
Seedpicker is the name for a small, jackdaw-like bird named, it seems, from [sc. its habit of] collecting seeds. So from this, and perhaps from living off other people, the base and readily despicable fellow is described as a seedpicker.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σπερμολόγος· εὐρυλόγος, ἀκριτόμυθος, καὶ ὁ τὰ σπέρματα συλλέγων. Σπερμολόγος λέγεται μικρὸν ὀρνιθάριον κολοιῶδες, σπερμολόγος ὠνομασμένον· ἔοικε δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ τὰ σπέρματα ἀναλέγειν. λέγεται οὖν ἀπὸ τούτου ὁ εὐτελὴς καὶ εὐκαταφρόνητος ἄνθρωπος, καὶ ἴσως ἀπὸ τῶν ἀλλοτρίων διαζῶν, σπερμολόγος.
Betacode
*spermolo/gos: eu)rulo/gos, a)krito/muqos, kai\ o( ta\ spe/rmata sulle/gwn. *spermolo/gos le/getai mikro\n o)rniqa/rion koloiw=des, spermolo/gos w)nomasme/non: e)/oike de\ a)po\ tou= ta\ spe/rmata a)nale/gein. le/getai ou)=n a)po\ tou/tou o( eu)telh\s kai\ eu)katafro/nhtos a)/nqrwpos, kai\ i)/sws a)po\ tw=n a)llotri/wn diazw=n, spermolo/gos.
Notes (2)
- 1Same material in Photius and elsewhere, probably generated by Demosthenes (see next note), but see also e.g. Acts 17.18. ↩
- 2Abridged from Harpokration s.v., glossing the use of the word in Demosthenes 18.127 (web address 1). See also the scholia to Aristophanes, Birds 579, where the genitive plural of the headword occurs. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 26 May 2016
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- added link, set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — David Whitehead