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Headword:
*)akrw/reia
Adler number: alpha,1028
Translated headword: mountain-ridge
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] prominence, summit. For the mountain was divided into three parts: into ridge, into slopes, into limit. The ridge is the summit, while the sides of the mountain [are its] slopes, and the last parts [its] limit.[1]
Also [sc. attested are a mountain's] feet.[2]
Greek Original:*)akrw/reia: e)coxh\, korufh/. ei)s tri/a ga\r dih/|rhto to\ o)/ros, ei)s a)krw/reian, ei)s u(pw/reian, ei)s te/rma. a)krw/reia me/n e)stin h( korufh/, u(pw/reia de\ ta\ pleura\ tou= o)/rous, te/rma de\ ta\ teleutai=a. kai\ po/des.
Notes:
[1] Same material in
Photius and elsewhere; similar in
Hesychius s.v.
a)krwrei/ais (dative plural). For the earliest attested instance of the headword see
Xenophon,
Hellenica 7.2.10, at web address 1 (accusative plural).
cf.
tau 346,
upsilon 571 and
upsilon 654.
[2] This addendum is not in other lexica. For the feet of a hill (and by extension, of a mountain) see LSJ s.v.
pou=s II.1.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2001@21:14:44.
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