Ὑπηνέμια

windy, empty

Translated by Catharine Roth12 May 2011Vetting: high4 revisions

3 notes · 56 words
*(uphne/mia [sc. is used] as we say [it]. Aristophanes in Daedalus [writes]: "sometimes many of the roosters often lay wind-eggs by force often."1 But Plato the philosopher in Theaetetus [uses the word] a)nemiai=a.2 And Menander in Dactylius [writes] "a wind-egg [a)nemiai=on] came."3
[sc. Wind-eggs are] those [eggs] which [are laid] without a sperm of a male.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὑπηνέμια· ὑπηνεμία ὡς ἡμεῖς λέγουσιν. Ἀριστοφάνης Δαιδάλῳ· ἐνίοτε πολλοὶ τῶν ἀλεκτρυόνων βίᾳ ὑπηνέμια τίκτουσιν ᾠὰ πολλάκις. Πλάτων δὲ ὁ φιλόσοφος ἐν Θεαιτήτῳ ἀνεμιαῖα. καὶ Μένανδρος Δακτυλίῳ· ἀνεμιαῖον ἐγένετο. τὰ δίχα σπέρματος ἄρρενος.

Betacode
*(uphne/mia: u(phnemi/a w(s h(mei=s le/gousin. *)aristofa/nhs *daida/lw|: e)ni/ote polloi\ tw=n a)lektruo/nwn bi/a| u(phne/mia ti/ktousin w)|a\ polla/kis. *pla/twn de\ o( filo/sofos e)n *qeaith/tw| a)nemiai=a. kai\ *me/nandros *daktuli/w|: a)nemiai=on e)ge/neto. ta\ di/xa spe/rmatos a)/rrenos.

Notes (3)

  1. Both parts of this entry are paralleled in other lexica. See also upsilon 423, upsilon 424, upsilon 426.
  2. 1Aristophanes fr. 186 Kock (194 K.-A.). The text has some difficulties: editors have emended e)ni/ote "sometimes" to eu) i)/ste "know well" or e(\n i)/ste "you know one thing", and polloi\ to the feminine pollai\. ↩
  3. 2Plato, Theaetetus 151E. The Atticists recommended a)nemiai=os in preference to u(phne/mios. ↩
  4. 3Menander fr. 104 Kock (99 K.-A.). ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 2 Dec 2022
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded note — Catharine Roth
  3. updated refs — David Whitehead
  4. more keywords; tweaks — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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