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Headword:
Andêra
Adler number: alpha,2145
Translated headword: dikes
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They call the edges[1] of rivers dikes, because of their being wet [
e)/nikma] and watery [
diera/]. But
Hyperides calls the upper-embankments [thus], because they are above [
a)/nw] the watery [parts] [
diera/].[2]
Greek Original:Andêra: ta cheilê tôn potamôn andêra legousi, dia to einai enikma kai diera. Huperidês de ta anachômata legei, dia to huperanô einai tôn dierôn.
Notes:
See also
alpha 2146.
[1] Literally, lips.
[2]
Hyperides fr. 113 Jensen (from his lost speech
Against Konon). Note that in Harpokration, the source of the present entry, it seems to be the word dikes itself for which
Hyperides is principally cited.
[1] Cf.
delta 940,
epsilon 1346.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; rhetoric; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 October 2000@11:01:38.
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