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Headword:
Misgankeia
Adler number: mu,1110
Translated headword: watersmeet
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a hollow place, into which the waters brought down from many mountains mix.[1]
The hollow place is likewise called a cuna/gkeia.[2]
Greek Original:Misgankeia: topos koilos, eis hon ta katapheromena misgetai apo pleionôn orôn hudata. xunankeia de legetai hôsautôs ho koilos topos.
Notes:
For this noun used figuratively see under
epsilon 3650.
[1] = Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon (113.4),
Synagoge mu230 (with the corrupt reading
poiki/los "variegated" for
koi=los "hollow"),
Photius mu467 Theodoridis (same error); cf.
Hesychius mu1440, mu1443. From commentary on
Homer,
Iliad 4.453, where the accusative case of this noun occurs; cf. the
scholia ad loc.
[2] See
xi 112,
sigma 1421.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 June 2009@07:58:30.
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