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Headword: Ômêstai
Adler number: omega,89
Translated headword: flesh-eating, savage
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Consuming raw [food].[1]
In the Epigrams "fearing the fate of a flesh-eating beast, he beat a kettledrum to give the impression [of having come] from a sacred glen".[2]
Greek Original:
Ômêstai: ôma esthiontes. en Epigrammasi: deisas d' ômêsteô thêros moron, hôs an doxai tumpanon ex hieras eplatagêse napês.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 11.454, where the headword occurs (of birds). See generally LSJ s.v.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.218.5-6.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Sheila Kurian on 6 June 2000@02:18:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; streamlined notes; added keywords) on 27 June 2001@11:05:06.

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