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Headword:
*)alao/s
Adler number: alpha,1071
Translated headword: unseeing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is blind. [sc. The word is formed] by [alpha-]privation of the [verb]
la/ein, which is to look/see.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun]
a)laskopih/n ["blind man's watch"].
Homer [writes]: "nor did he keep a blind man's watch".[Used] proverbially: meaning he did not keep a lookout blindly.[2]
*)alao/s: o( tuflo/s. kata\ ste/rhsin tou= la/ein, o(/ e)sti ble/pein. kai\ *)alaoskopih/n. *(/omhros: ou)d' a)laoskopih\n ei)=xe. paroimiakw=s: a)nti\ tou= ou) tuflw=s e)skopi/azen.
Notes:
The primary headword is quoted from
Homer,
Odyssey 8.195; see the
scholia there.
cf. generally
alpha 1072.
[1] For this verb see
lambda 35. Same or similar material in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 10.515 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; imagery; medicine; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 November 2000@00:14:03.
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