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Headword: Phaian
Adler number: phi,151
Translated headword: gray, grey
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"But he, assuming that gray and black garb [...] of those including his companions up to [sc. the number of] fifty, all ventured together [sc. to wear] the same garb as that man."[1]
Greek Original:
Phaian: ho de schêmatisamenos es tên phaian ekeinên kai melainan stolên, tôn mechri kai tôn suneidotôn es pentêkonta sunteinontôn, pantes sunetolmôn tên autên ekeinôi stolên.
Notes:
The headword, feminine accusative singular of this adjective, is presumably extracted from the quotation given. For the color, see phi 178, phi 179, phi 180.
[1] Valckenaer attributed this quotation to Aelian. Bernhardy called it oratio manca, and indeed the construction and sense are unclear.
Keywords: biography; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; philosophy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2011@00:47:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another note; another keyword) on 16 September 2011@06:10:04.
Catharine Roth (added cross-references) on 16 September 2011@22:23:24.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@04:14:05.
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