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Headword: Keston himanta
Adler number: kappa,1427
Translated headword: embroidered girdle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a decorated girdle.[1]
In which, as the story was told, all the charms for deception were contained.[2]
Greek Original:
Keston himanta: poikilon himanta. hôi panta emutheueto enuparchein ta pros apatên thelktêria.
Notes:
See also kappa 1428.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon; see the references at Photius kappa622 Theodoridis. This phrase in the accusative case is quoted from Homer, Iliad 14.214 (web address 1). See further, next note.
[2] cf. the scholia on Homer, Iliad 14.214 (where Hera borrows Aphrodite's magic girdle).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; mythology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 November 2008@22:16:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks) on 10 November 2008@03:08:51.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 19 February 2013@07:06:24.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 20 February 2013@00:08:28.
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