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Headword:
Berethron
Adler number: beta,242
Translated headword: gulf, pit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] deep [place].[1]
"Now more than before, o triple dog, guard the gates of the strong pit with your unsleeping eyes."[2]
Greek Original:Berethron: bathos. nun pleon ê to paroithe pulas krateroio berethrou ommasin agrupnois trisse, phulasse, kuon.
Notes:
The headword is an epic/Ionic form of Attic
ba/raqron (
beta 99,
beta 100,
beta 101).
[1] From the
scholia on
Homer,
Iliad 8.14, where the headword occurs (referring to Tartaros: web address 1).
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.70.1-2 (Julian, prefect of Egypt), addressing Cerberus (cf.
kappa 1381). See further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 1442 and
lambda 795.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; mythology; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 December 2003@19:03:47.
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