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Headword: Skeuê
Adler number: sigma,562
Translated headword: gear
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] equipment, outfit.[1]
"The priest was preparing the gear of the executioner, employing the most familiar objects instead of the most hallowed."[2]
"Most of the animals were swept along into the deep and drowned, since the seawater got into their gear."[3]
"Karteros [sic] was conspicuous for the brilliance of his gear."[4]
Greek Original:
Skeuê: hoplisis, ê stolê. ho de hiereus skeuên eskeuazeto tên tou dêmiou, metalabôn anti tôn semnotatôn ta oiktista. ta de polla tôn thêriôn eis bathos nêxamena, tês thalassês autois eis tas skeuas empesousês, apepnigê. ho de Karteros tês te skeuês têi lamprotêti diapherôn ên.
Notes:
[1] = Glossae in Herodotum sigma1 (1.5, on Herodotus 1.24, etc.), Hesychius sigma931.
[2] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 55 Habrich. See also sigma 1414.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Aelian.)
[4] Arrian: see in context at kappa 2335. "Karteros" here is a corruption of "Krateros".
Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; historiography; history; law; military affairs; religion; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 February 2014@14:01:06.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 19 February 2014@23:29:01.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics; raised status) on 20 February 2014@03:20:39.
William Hutton (augmented n. 4) on 20 February 2014@08:42:17.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 2 June 2014@01:05:22.

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