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Headword:
Peismata
Adler number: pi,1475
Translated headword: hawsers
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] little anchors, cables. [sc. The word comes] from the [sc. idea of the] ship being persuaded [pei/qesqai] by means of them.
Greek Original:Peismata: ta ankuria, schoinia. para to peithesthai di' autôn tên naun.
Notes:
Same or similar entries in other lexica; references at
Photius pi529 Theodoridis. The headword, a neuter plural, is quoted from
Homer,
Odyssey 6.269; see the
scholia there.
See already under
alphaiota 155.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 March 2010@07:31:41.
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