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Headword: Terma
Adler number: tau,346
Translated headword: limit
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning an] end, boundary or turning-post.[1]
"At the limit of [their] season." [Meaning] after [their] youth.[2]
For the mountain is divided into three parts: into ridge, into slopes, into limit. And the ridge is the summit, while the sides of the mountain are slopes, and the last parts are the limit and feet.[3]
Greek Original:
Terma: telos, horos ê kamptêr. termasin hôras. meta tên neotêta. eis tria gar diêirêtai to oros: eis akrôreian, eis hupôreian, eis terma. kai akrôreia men estin hê koruphê, hupôreia de ta pleura tou orous, terma de ta teleutaia kai podes.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in the Synagoge and Photius; cf. Hesychius (tau532) and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 21.162.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 705, with scholion; more fully already at alpha 3442.
[3] From alpha 1028, cf. upsilon 654.
Keywords: athletics; comedy; definition; epic; gender and sexuality; geography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 December 2013@01:20:45.
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David Whitehead (tweaking) on 8 December 2013@04:43:06.
David Whitehead on 9 January 2014@04:47:50.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 July 2014@22:39:54.
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