φερέοικος

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νὺξ μὲν ἐμὸν κατέχει ζωῆς φάος ὑπνοδοτείρη → sleep-giving night hath quenched my light of life | sleep-giving night covers my light of life | night, the giver of sleep, holds the light of my life

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Transliteration A: pheréoikos Transliteration B: phereoikos Transliteration C: fereoikos Beta Code: fere/oikos

English (LSJ)

ον,

   A carrying one's house with one, of the Scythians in Hdt.4.46.    II Subst., house-carrier, i.e. snail, Hes.Op.571: acc. to others, a kind of wasp, or a tortoise, Hsch., EM790.35, cf. φέροικος.