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Headword:
Husplêx
Adler number: upsilon,684
Translated headword: gin, snare, starting-device, trap, trigger
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] scourge, starting-gate, ox-goad, or spur, which strikes the oxen.[1]
"But he, being ready as if from a starting-device, threw out of it(?)."[2]
And elsewhere: "who set you, the beardless Hermes, by starting-devices?"[3]
And
Josephus [writes]: "but they stand ready to charge as if from a starting-device."[4]
Husplêx: phragellion, aphetêria, boukentron, ê muôps, ho plêssôn tous bous. ho de kathaper apo husplêgos hetoimos ôn ex autês hêke. kai authis: tis ton achnoun Hermên se par' husplêgesin ethêke; kai Iôsêpos: hoi de hestasin hôsper eph' husplêgos exorman hetoimoi.
Notes:
For the several meanings of this headword see LSJ s.v., and cf. generally
upsilon 683.
[1] Likewise or similarly glossed in other lexica, and in
scholia on Lucian,
Lycophron, and
Plato. The first glossing term,
frage/llion, comes from the Latin
flagellum; cf.
sigma 717.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.259.1 (Philip): cf.
alpha 4706. See further extracts from this epigram, a wayfarer's exchange with a statue set up by a successful athlete, at
pi 1841 and
sigma 981.
[4]
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.90 (web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: art history; athletics; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 June 2011@23:28:23.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headwords; added primary note and more keywords; cosmetics) on 5 June 2011@05:02:34.
David Whitehead on 1 December 2013@07:19:45.
David Whitehead (coding) on 30 May 2016@06:44:42.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, added a link) on 26 December 2022@00:21:55.
Ronald Allen (augmented n.3, added cross-references) on 8 January 2023@13:25:48.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation in consultation with Managing Editor Catharine Roth) on 8 January 2023@21:46:13.
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