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Headword: Sphedanôn
Adler number: sigma,1723
Translated headword: vehement, violent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] solid, strong. "[...] and rolling his eye[s] he roared mightily from vehement jaws."[1]
Greek Original:
Sphedanôn: sterrôn, ischurôn. omma d' helixas bruchato sphedanôn obrimon ek genuôn.
Notes:
The headword, genitive plural of the epic/poetic adjective sfedano/s, is presumably extracted from the epigram quoted.
[1] Greek Anthology 6.219.11-12 (of a lion). See further extracts from this epigram (attributed to Antipater of Sidon) at alpha 1510, alpha 1828, alpha 4172, epsilon 747, zeta 19, kappa 2544, lambda 869, and sigma 299; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 33) and (vol. II, 84-86).
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 June 2014@04:55:41.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 9 June 2014@09:41:55.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 9 June 2014@09:50:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.1, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 5 August 2021@12:32:53.

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