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Headword: Psênes
Adler number: psi,71
Translated headword: gall-insects
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Gnats, that occur in wild figs.[1]
[The one] which make the figs ripen when wild-fig [branches] are attached to fig trees.[2]
Also [the expression] ὑπεψηνισμένη ["caprified"] from this [process], [meaning] pregnant.[3]
Greek Original:
Psênes: kônôpia, ta en tois olunthois ginomena. hoitines kai tôn olunthôn periaptomenôn tais sukais pepainousi ta suka. kai Hupepsênismenê apo toutou, hê enkumôn.
Notes:
[1] From a comment on Herodotus 1.193: see web address 1.
[2] Perhaps from a comment on Aristophanes, Birds 590: see web address 2.
[3] cf. upsilon 407.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; women; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 December 2005@16:45:56.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 29 December 2005@02:39:27.

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