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Headword: Dolichos
Adler number: delta,1339
Translated headword: calavance; the long course
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a pulse [of that name];[1] also the name of the course, with accent on the first syllable. But the adjective dolixo/s, [meaning] long, has its accent on the last syllable.
The long course [is] 20 stadia.[2]
Greek Original:
Dolichos: to osprion: kai to onoma tou dromou, proparoxutonôs. dolichos de to epitheton, ho makros, oxutonôs. esti de ho dolichos k# stadia.
Notes:
[1] Vigna sinensis; Theophrastus, Enquiry into Plants 8.3.2.
[2] From the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 684, where dro/mon occurs; cf. delta 807, delta 1336, sigma 981.
Keywords: athletics; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2005@14:51:36.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 March 2005@10:29:53.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 16 July 2012@05:26:33.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 25 November 2014@23:16:59.
David Whitehead on 26 November 2014@02:48:02.

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