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Headword:
Huperôê
Adler number: upsilon,348
Translated headword: palate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*(uperw/h] and
u(perw/a: the roof of the mouth.
Homer [says]: "he wetted his lips, but he did not wet his palate".[1]
And Simocatta [says]: "a Median[2] arrow went deep into the upper lip and stuck into the skull".[3]
Huperôê kai Huperôa: ho ouraniskos. Homêros: cheilea men t' ediên', huperôên d' ouk ediêne. kai Simokatos: eis men gar tên huperôan chelunên Mêdikên oïstos es bathos esdus ana to kranion errizôto.
Notes:
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 22.495 (web address 1).
[2] Read
*mhdiko\s instead of
*mhdikh\n, as at
chi 194.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta (
theta 201,
sigma 435),
Histories 2.6.2; on a Roman soldier, found alive but with horrific wounds, after the Battle of Solachon (586); cf. de Boor (79) and Whitby (50). On this battle, and for related entries, see
alpha 141 note.
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; epic; geography; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 26 November 2007@12:54:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (another x-ref; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 27 November 2007@03:22:22.
David Whitehead on 24 November 2013@06:07:40.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 26 November 2022@20:15:19.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography and cross-reference) on 11 July 2025@12:08:15.
Ronald Allen (tweaked beta code n.2) on 11 July 2025@12:12:19.
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