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Oh the LBG is actually online: http://stephanus.tlg.uci.edu/lbg/#eid=51685

Really useful when you’re looking up an atrocious substantive participle form Psellos’ writting. 

i was reading the text of a byzantine orthodox hymn when i saw a word παρθενόφυτον there and was amazed by it since i recognized both roots but couldn’t comprehend the meaning because y’know… literary byzantine greek is not the easiest thing to understand… so i tried to google it just to find an article about one specific motif in early slavic hymnography in slovak where the line with this word is recited and translated into old church slavonic. yeah…

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Oh for sure the main problem is that Byzantine Greek can sometimes be, how should I say over meaning, in the sense that many ‘classical’ words tend to get expended with prepositions like ἐπί πρός to effectively mean the same thing. Add to that the cavalcade of Slavic/Arabic/Steppe’s language, words that have been added to it throughout the century and you end up with an archaizing language that keeps evolving throwing out old words out for new ones.

Anyway, the translation is, of course, true but by the time of Andreas of Crete the word probably had evolved to just mean virginal in hymnography due to the composite/syncretic nature of Byzantine Greek.

Edit:

Okay just had a check in the Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität the translation there is more complete basically virginally blooming as you said. 

i was reading the text of a byzantine orthodox hymn when i saw a word παρθενόφυτον there and was amazed by it since i recognized both roots but couldn’t comprehend the meaning because y’know… literary byzantine greek is not the easiest thing to understand… so i tried to google it just to find an article about one specific motif in early slavic hymnography in slovak where the line with this word is recited and translated into old church slavonic. yeah…

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The reference in the E. A Sophocles of medieval Greek p. 859:

παρθενόφυτος, ov, (φύω) virginal. Andr. C. 1328 D.

and the reference to the text Sophocles is alluding to:

Andr. C. —Andreas of Crete (A. D. 675). Patrologia Graeca, XCVII. — Methodus investigandi Cycli Solaris, XIX.

i was reading the text of a byzantine orthodox hymn when i saw a word παρθενόφυτον there and was amazed by it since i recognized both roots but couldn’t comprehend the meaning because y’know… literary byzantine greek is not the easiest thing to understand… so i tried to google it just to find an article about one specific motif in early slavic hymnography in slovak where the line with this word is recited and translated into old church slavonic. yeah…

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25 years of ads peeled away

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Source: @somethingsomethingmisc on Insta

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Everyone says who you first marry in skyrim says a lot about you but i married that homeless guy in windhelm the Once Honored guy w the bald ass head bcs I read that unless u do he dies in the civil war and so i married him thinking i could divorce him on friendly terms and help him get back on his feet  but you cant get divorced i learned too late and he keeps asking my DB for a gold coin every day despite living in her house and yelled at meeko and then i met serana and fell in love thinking i could marry her if I got old baldy out of the picture bcs he never even changed out of his raggedy ass robes anyway so lure him into the small room in lakeview manor and close the doors so the kids dont see and one hit mercy kill him but the kids hear anyway and start screaming and the bard hears too and attacks me and I have to kill the bard and the kids are still screaming. but every time i come back the bodies wont despawn so theres just my dead homeless husband and bard in the house making the kids cower in the corner so i cast reanimate and try to walk my husband outside but that just makes things worse bcs hes making those zombie moans and as SOON as i load outside the door he turns into a giant ass zombie ash pile and goes “thank….. you….” so the rest of the game I just had my dead bald husbands goo ashes right on the front steps of my home and Seranas not even marriable 

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Witcher 3, doodles #352

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tumblr i’m begging you please let me reblog the big tiddy coffin

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I AM SO SICK OF GETTING EMAILS FROM FUCKING CHRISTIANBOOK.COM!!!!! you buy a playmobil figure of martin luther ONE TIME and they’re all over your dick for years telling you about their bible specials. it’s over! i don’t have feelings for you christianbook.com i just wanted a single night of pleasure! it was a one night stand with protestantism!! 

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is waking up at 4 am with a feeling of inexplicable dread and immediately checking the status of the us election a universal european experience or is it just me?

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