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Headword: Βρύει
Adler number: beta,569
Translated headword: teems
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
[He/she/it] blossoms.[1]
[He/she/it] is flourishing.[2]
"He ran straight up Mount Libanos and shot with [an arrow of] fire the plain that lay below teeming with grain, and the whole crop was gone, turned to ash."[3]
Greek Original:
Βρύει: ἀνθεῖ. τέθηλεν. ὁ δὲ εὐθὺ Λιβάνου τοῦ ὄρους ἀνέδραμε καὶ τὸ ὑποκείμενον πεδίον στάχυσι βρύον τοξεύει πυρί, καὶ τὸ λήϊον πᾶν τέφραν ᾤετο γεγονέναι.
Notes:
[1] Similar glosses in other lexica. cf. generally beta 570.
[2] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 17.56, where the headword occurs.
[3] Damascius, Life of Isidore fr.166 Zintzen. See also kappa 783, where, however, the subject seems to be feminine.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; geography; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 October 2002@13:34:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords) on 9 October 2002@03:47:35.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 5 August 2008@05:40:08.

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