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Headword:
Kôdônophoreitai
Adler number: kappa,2220
Translated headword: [everything] is bell-carried
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning the guard-duty of the sentries is examined.[1]
'Bell' is also the name for the broad part of a trumpet.
Sophocles [writes]: "of a bronze-mouthed bell". There are many kind of trumpet: Libyan, Egyptian, Etruscan. Archondas, when an ally of the Herakleidai, was the first to introduce the Etruscan trumpet to the Greeks. That is why [
Sophocles] says "Etruscan".[2]
Greek Original:Kôdônophoreitai: anti tou dokimazetai hê tôn phulakôn phroura. Kôdôn kaleitai kai to platu tês salpingos. Sophoklês: chalkostomou kôdônos. polla de eisin eidê salpingôn: Libustikai, Aiguptiai, Tursênikai. prôtos Archôndas summachôn tois Hêrakleidais êgagen eis Hellênas tên Turrênikên salpinga. dia touto phêsi Turrênikês.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 November 2006@06:34:47.
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