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Headword: Pilêthenta
Adler number: pi,1596
Translated headword: felted
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] compressed.[1] "For you, Hermes, Kalliteles hung up the hat felted from the well-carded fleece of a lamb."[2]
Greek Original:
Pilêthenta: puknôthenta. soi ton pilêthenta di' euxantou trichos amnou, Herma, Kallitelês ekremasen petalon.
Notes:
cf. generally pi 1598.
[1] The headword is aorist passive participle of pile/w, masculine accusative singular, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.282.1-2 (Theodorus), quoted already at pi 1385. See further extracts from this epigram at pi 1361 and sigma 1719.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 June 2012@01:01:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 26 June 2012@03:37:49.
David Whitehead on 3 October 2013@08:28:07.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 8 July 2014@23:04:08.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 29 August 2021@21:45:10.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 23 July 2022@11:50:54.

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