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Headword: Doureios
Adler number: delta,1429
Translated headword: planked, wooden
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[sc. As in] the Greeks' wooden horse.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "in size as big as the wooden one, they would have the width to drive past each other, [...] and as to the length, [...] a hundred cubits".[2]
Greek Original:
Doureios: ho xulinos hippos tôn Hellênôn. Aristophanês: megethos hoson ho doureios, hupo tou platous an parelasaitên, to de mêkos, hekatontorguion.
Notes:
[1] So in e.g. Euripides, Trojan Women 14 (if authentic); Plato, Theaetetus 184D. The Homeric form was doura/teos (Odyssey 8.493 etc.); delta 1428. For the phrase see again under delta 1541.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1128-31 (with prior mention of horses), here compressed; cf. epsilon 1831.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2003@03:42:25.
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