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Headword:
*)axurmiai/
Adler number: alpha,4721
Translated headword: chaff-heaps
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the places into which the winnowed chaff is thrown.[1]
And in the Epigrams: "and sharp chaff-winnowing threshing-boards."[2]
Greek Original:*)axurmiai/: oi( to/poi, ei)s ou(\s ta\ a)/xura a)pofe/retai likmw/mena. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ tribo/lous o)cei=s a)xuro/tribas.
Notes:
For chaff see also
epsilon 591.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 5.502, where the headword occurs.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.104.3, a farmer's dedication to Demeter; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 310-311); (vol. II, 343); and further excerpts from this epigram at
beta 455,
gamma 54,
tau 994,
upsilon 120,
omega 69, and
omega 81. The implement called the
tribolos is a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom used for threshing; cf. LSJ s.v.
tri/bolosII (web address 1).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@23:30:59.
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