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Headword:
Alimenon
Adler number: alpha,1227
Translated headword: harbourless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the [furrow] which does not have an end, or even a start.
Greek Original:Alimenon: tên telos ouk echousan, oude hormon.
Note:
Likewise in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword (accusative case, as the glossing shows) occurs in
Aristophanes,
Birds 1400 ("cutting a harbourless furrow of sky" -- see Dunbar 672 on the mixed metaphor there), and the gloss is that of a scholiast thereto.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Keywords: agriculture; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 May 2000@14:17:45.
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