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Headword: Sturax
Adler number: sigma,1262
Translated headword: spike
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the butt at the bottom of the spear, which they customarily stick into the ground. And Thucydides says "using the spike of a javelin in the crossbar instead of a key".[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related verb] sturaki/zw ["I spike"], [meaning] I (?)tear.[2]
Greek Original:
Sturax: to katô tou doratos trachêlion, ho katapêgnuein eis tên gên eiôthasi. kai Thoukudidês phêsi: sturakiôi akontiôi anti balanou chrêsamenos eis ton mochlon. kai Sturakizô, helkô.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration s.v., commenting in the first instance on Lysias fr. 162 Sauppe (now 215 Carey OCT).
See also sigma 1261.
[1] Thucydides 2.4.3, using stura/kion, the diminutive of the headword.
[2] Glossed with kentri/zw in other lexica. Very rare outside lexicography.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 December 2000@09:41:13.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (supplemented translation, augmented note) on 15 January 2005@12:34:26.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented note and keywords) on 16 January 2005@05:18:42.
David Whitehead (updated notes; tweaks) on 14 July 2011@08:35:54.
David Whitehead on 2 January 2014@04:18:10.
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