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Headword:
Kissêris
Adler number: kappa,1670
Translated headword: pumice-stone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "A dry porous rock of the sea."[1] And elsewhere: "and a jagged rock, an ornament sharpening reeds well."[2]
Greek Original:Kissêris. auchmêron pontou trêmatoenta lithon. kai authis: trêchaleên te lithon, donakôn euthêgea kosmon.
Notes:
On this headword see generally LSJ s.v.
ki/shris (sic: the double sigma spelling, as here, is castigated as erroneous).
[1]
Greek Anthology 6.62.4 (Philip of Thessalonica), immediately following a mention of pumice-stone in line 3, in a listing of scribes' tools; cf. already at
theta 386. See additional excerpts from this epigram at
kappa 316 and
sigma 742.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.63.5 (
Damocharis), likewise listing scribes' tools.
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Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 24 November 2008@18:47:58.
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