Ξύμβολον ὄρνιν
meeting-sign omen
Translated by James L. P. Butrica ✝18 Feb 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
They call a [meeting-sign] an [omen]; since they used to make signs of those first meeting them and foretelling [something] from an encounter.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ξύμβολον ὄρνιν φασίν· ἐπειδὴ συμβόλους ἐποίουν τοὺς πρῶτα συναντῶντας καὶ ἐξ ἀπαντήσεως προσημαίνοντας.
Betacode
*cu/mbolon o)/rnin fasi/n: e)peidh\ sumbo/lous e)poi/oun tou\s prw=ta sunantw=ntas kai\ e)c a)panth/sews proshmai/nontas.
Notes
- The phrase "[you call] a meeting-sign an omen" occurs in Aristophanes, Birds 721 (web address 1), and this entry derives from the scholia there; cf. also xi 105.
For "meeting-sign" (and for the scope ofo)/rnis "bird," extending from bird-omen to omen of any kind) see Dunbar 456-7.
References
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995).
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Dec 2020
- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- upgraded link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- cosmetics; web address; raised status — David Whitehead
- supplied headword; modified translation; added note and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — James L. P. Butrica ✝