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Headword:
Herkos
Adler number: epsilon,3017
Translated headword: fence
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] enclosure, circumvallation.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "[...] to await the end of one's whole life, and not to leap forwards nor to enroll oneself among the blessed. For human affairs are uncertain, as long as for each [person] the life is inside the fence of the teeth."[2]
Herkos: periphragma, periteichisma. Ailianos: biou pantos to telos anamenein, mêde propêdan mêde tois eudaimosin heauton enkatagraphein. adêla gar einai ta anthrôpina, heôs an hekastôi hê psuchê eisô tou tôn odontôn herkous êi.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica and grammars, and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 1.284 (where the headword noun occurs). See also
epsilon 3015.
[2]
Aelian fr. 70b and 70c Domingo-Forasté (67 Hercher), alluding to the epic formula
e(/rkos o)do/ntwn, "the fence of the teeth." See also
tau 288.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 December 2007@18:12:56.
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