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Headword:
Bouplêx
Adler number: beta,455
Translated headword: cattle-prod
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] ax(e), whip, ox-goad.[1]
And elsewhere: "and a goad that pricks from behind and ox-guiding bonds of sinews."[2]
Greek Original:Bouplêx: pelekus, mastix, boukentron. kai authis: kai kentr' opisthonugê kai boustropha desma tenontôn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 6.135, where a form of the headword appears (web address 1 below).
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.104.5 (Philip). Find further excerpts from this epigram, a plowman's dedication, at
alpha 4721,
gamma 54,
tau 994,
upsilon 120,
omega 69, and
omega 81.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 June 2002@20:17:50.
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