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Headword:
Exekopê
Adler number: epsilon,1610
Translated headword: had his eye knocked out
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] was mutilated.[1] Horatius the Roman was also known as Cocles ["One-Eyed"]; for Romans call the eye an oculus.[2]
Greek Original:Exekopê ton ophthalmon: epêrôthê. Hôratios ho Rhômaios kai epeklêthê Koklês: ton gar ophthalmon okoloum kalousi Rhômaioi.
Notes:
cf.
omicron 118.
[1] For the gloss see already
epsilon 545.
[2] For the legend of Horatius Cocles (
kappa 1921) -- Horatius and the Bridge -- cf.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus,
Roman Antiquities 5.23.2, and see generally T.J. Cornell in OCD(4) 707.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 August 2001@05:28:09.
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