μέροψ: Difference between revisions

|Definition=οπος, ὁ, poet. word, used only in pl. as epith. of men, derived by Gramm. from <b class="b3">μείρομαι, ὄψ</b>, <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> <b class="b2">dividing the voice</b>, i. e. <b class="b2">articulate</b> (cf. Hsch., Sch.<span class="bibl">11.1.250</span>), μ. ἄνθρωποι Il. l.c., <span class="bibl">Hes.<span class="title">Op.</span>109</span>, etc.; μ. βροτοί <span class="bibl">11.2.285</span>; μερόπεσσι λαοῖς <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Supp.</span>90</span> (lyr.): hence as Subst., = [[ἄνθρωποι]], Musae.<span class="title">Fr.</span>13 D., <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Ch.</span>1018</span> (anap.), <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">IT</span>1263</span> (lyr.), <span class="bibl">A.R.4.536</span>, <span class="bibl">Call.<span class="title">Fr.</span>418</span>, <span class="title">AP</span>7.563 (Paul. Sil.); a usage satirized by <span class="bibl">Strato Com., 1.6</span> sq. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> in sg. and pl., <b class="b2">bee-eater, Merops apiaster</b>, <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>615b25</span>, Plu.2.976d; cf. [[εἴροψ]].</span>

|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-02-0136.png Seite 136]] οπος, ὁ, gew. im plur. οἱ μέροπες, – 1) <b class="b2">die Menschen</b>, die artikulirt sprechen, die einzelnen Laute u. Sylben trennen u. deutlich hören lassen, zum Unterschiede von den Thieren, die nur unartikulirte Töne hervorbringen; ἄνθρωποι, Hom., Hes.; βροτοί, Il. 2, 285; μερόπεσσι λαοῖς, Aesch. Suppl. 84; [[οὔτις]] μερόπων, ohne Zusatz, keiner der Menschen, Ch. 1013; einzeln bei sp. D., die auch wie Man. 4, 577 den sing. haben. – 2) ein Vogel, der <b class="b2">Bienenfresser</b>, sonst [[ἀέροψ]], Arist. H. A. 9, 13. – S. auch nom. pr.