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Headword:
*)/agkuran
Adler number: alpha,258
Translated headword: anchor
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Note] that
Anacharsis the Scythian philosopher invented the anchor and the potter's wheel. He lived in the time of Croesus.
*)/agkuran: o(/ti *)ana/xarsis *sku/qhs filo/sofos eu(=ren a)/gkuran kai\ to\n kerameiko\n troxo/n. h)=n de\ e)pi\ *kroi/sou.
Notes:
An extract from the main entry on
Anacharsis (
alpha 2130). The headword, part of it, is accusative singular.
Anacharsis is an important character in Book 4 of
Herodotus'
History; Croesus, tyrant of
Lydia, is important throughout
Herodotus.
Anacharsis earns his fame by attempting to introduce Greek customs into Scythia, and eventually dies for it. The story of
Anacharsis' inventions, however, is not found elsewhere.
OCD(4) s.v. (p.77).
Keywords: biography; chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Roger Travis on 4 October 2000@12:08:40.
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