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Headword: Dolichon
Adler number: delta,1338
Translated headword: long
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] lengthy, or large.[1]
"To have a spear not so long as one for fighting from horseback, but so that only the spearpoint extended to a height."[2]
Greek Original:
Dolichon: makron, ê polu. echein de doru ou kata ton ex hippou machomenon dolichon, all' hôste monon tên epidoratida huperechein es hupsos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon. The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective (for which see already delta 1336, with equivalent glossing for the plural). It might be extracted from the quotation given, but more probably from Homer (e.g. Iliad 13.162, 15.474).
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; and what the last part of it means is unclear.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; military affairs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2005@00:52:10.
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