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Headword:
Orthoplêx
hippos
Adler number: omicron,577
Translated headword: upright-striking horse
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one] raising itself upright and striking.
Aristophanes in
Anagyros [writes]: "but [he is] just like an upright-striking [horse]; for [he is] skittish by nature."[1]
Greek Original:Orthoplêx hippos: orthos epairomenos kai plêssôn. Aristophanês Anagurôi: hôs de orthoplêx: pephuke gar dusgargalis.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius,
Lexicon omicron467 Theodoridis, apparently from Aelius
Dionysius. The adjective in the headword phrase is otherwise unattested.
[1]
Aristophanes fr. 43 Kock (44 K.-A.).
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 21 January 2010@16:28:09.
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