A Greek Boy at Home

[Bert]

The deadline job completed, I can spend a bit more time reading Greek.
I ran across a few problems that require some help.
The story I'm reading is called: a Greek Boy at Home.
1. In my first difficulty the Greek boy gives a description of some of the wildlife in the forest.
[size=150]ἄγρια οὖν ταῦτα τὰ δένδρα, ἄγριοι δὲ καὶ οἱ δρυμοί. ἐν δὲ τῇ ὕλῃ καὶ δὴ καὶ ἐν τοῖς δρυμοῖς μάλιστα οἰκεῖ τὰ ἄγρια ζῷα, περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον.[/size]

The first part does not make a lot of sense to me; These trees then are wild, wild but also shrubs (undergrowth).
The next sentence; But in the bush but also in the undergrowth especially live the wildlife,....I don't understand περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον. at all.

2.My second problem is when the boy describes how they raise birds (Chickens, I quess) for the eggs. He then says; ὢ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου ὀρνιθίου
Oh mankind loving birds or Oh kind birds
My translation is as if it was Vocative, but it is in the Genitive.
What's happening?

[annis]

I don't understand περὶ ὧν υς(/στερον. at all.

"About which later" I think.

2.My second problem is when the boy describes how they raise birds (Chickens, I quess) for the eggs. He then says; ὢ τοῦ φιλανθρώπου ὀρνιθίου
Oh mankind loving birds or Oh kind birds
My translation is as if it was Vocative, but it is in the Genitive.
What's happening?

"Oh, what human-loving birds!" is what I'd say. Smyth 1407, though the L&S says that it ὤ can take vocative (which seems more usual) or genitive.
EDIT: Goodwin 1124, "The genitive is sometimes used in exclamations, to give the cause of the astonishment."

[ThomasGR]

drumos = forest

a)/gria ou)=n tau=ta ta\ de/ndra, a)/grioi de\ kai\ oi( drumoi/.

Wild are these trees, but wild are forests as well.

w)\ tou= filanqrw/pou o)rniqi/ou

I think it must be in genitive, and belongs to follwing part of the sentence. E.g. [....] of the human-loving birds.

[Bert]

drumos = forest

ἄγρια οὖν ταῦτα τὰ δένδρα, ἄγριοι δὲ καὶ οἱ δρυμοί.

Wild are these trees, but wild are forests as well.

Is DRUMOS synonymous to hULH?

[Skylax]

Is DRUMOS synonymous to hULH?

Yes, more or less, for it means "coppice, thicket"