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Eschara
Adler number: epsilon,3242
Translated headword: sacrificial hearth, eschar
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Lycurgus and
Ammonius say that an eschar is the name for the [altar] which has no height but is set into the ground, or hollow.[1] By analogy doctors call shallow wounds in the body eschars.
Greek Original:Eschara: escharan phêsi kaleisthai Lukourgos kai Ammônios tên mê echousan hupsos, all' epi gês hidrumenên, ê koilên. par' ho kai tous iatrous ta en sômati koila helkê escharas kalousin.
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Keywords: architecture; definition; epic; historiography; imagery; medicine; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 November 2000@06:45:07.
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