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Headword:
Okchê
Adler number: omicron,131
Translated headword: prop
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] support, lift. "And he grasped a staff of heath, which became a prop of old age."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related aorist middle infinitive] o)kxh/sasqai ["to support oneself"], [meaning] to sit on [something].[2]
Greek Original:Okchê: stêrigma, bastagma. gento d' ereikês skêpanion, ho dê pelen gêraos okchê. kai Okchêsasthai, epikathesthênai.
Notes:
[1]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 355 Pfeiffer.
Hesychius omicron503 also uses
sth/rigma to gloss the word.
[2] Pfeiffer believes this is also from
Callimachus'
Hecale, and counts it as fr. 356. The
o)kx- variant of the
o)x- stem (
o)xh/, o)xe/w) is unattested outside
Callimachus (via the lexicographers).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 29 November 2009@19:29:13.
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