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Headword: Othonais
Adler number: omicron,79
Translated headword: with fine linens
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] with light woven materials; and [sc. the term means] any thin [fabric], even if it is not made of flax.[1]
"For I/they also cut out with a sickle the rope by means of which the linen [sc. sail] is brought up onto the yardarm of the mast."[2] He is speaking of the ship's tackle.
Greek Original:
Othonais: leptois huphasmasi: kai pan to ischnon, kan mê linoun êi. tên te gar schoinon, di' hês hê othonê epi tên tou histou anagetai keraian, drepanôi exetemon. to armenon legei.
Notes:
[1] The headword (again omicron 80) is here in the dative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere. Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at Photius omicron54 Theodoridis.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 November 2009@03:41:01.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 2 November 2009@10:05:56.
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David Whitehead on 23 June 2013@05:40:34.
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