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Headword:
Dikella
Adler number: delta,1087
Translated headword: fork, mattock
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] farm implement [of that name].[1]
"[For] those obtaining their livelihood not with oxen and fork, but with horse and sword."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] dikelli/ths ["fork-man/fork-user"].[3]
Greek Original:Dikella: geôrgikon ergaleion. ou bousi kai dikellêi porizomenois ton bion, all' hippôi kai machairai. kai Dikellitês.
Notes:
[1] For the headword (already under
alpha 365), which etymologically denotes an implement with two prongs, see e.g.
Aeschylus fr. 196;
Sophocles,
Antigone 250;
Euripides,
Phoenissae 1155. (It occurs as a gloss for
makella in
scholia on Lucian,
Hesiodus 7; and see
mu 67.)
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[3] See Lucian,
Timon 8.
Keywords: agriculture; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; military affairs; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 April 2005@18:39:08.
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