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Headword:
Batêr
Adler number: beta,181
Translated headword: threshold
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the beginning of the dug-up landing area for those [sc. competing in the long jump] in the pentathlon. "You have struck the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the most important and chiefmost [point].[1]
Greek Original:Batêr: hê archê tou tôn pentathlou skammatos. auton kekroukas ton batêra tou logou, phêsi tis. hoion to epikairotaton kai to prôton.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[1] cf. already at
alpha 4511.
Keywords: athletics; comedy; daily life; definition; imagery; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 13 June 2002@10:27:12.
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