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Headword: *brabei=s
Adler number: beta,511
Translated headword: umpires
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the heralds in the games.[1]
Sophokles [writes]: "for as much as umpires heralded in the prizes which are customary for the two-lap races."[2]
Greek Original:
*brabei=s: oi( e)n toi=s a)gw=si kh/rukes. *sofoklh=s: o(/son ga\r ei)sekh/rucan brabei=s dro/mwn diau/lwn pe/ntaql', a(\ nomi/zetai.
Notes:
The headword, nominative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given (though see n. 2 below).
cf. generally beta 509, beta 510, beta 512.
[1] Likewise in ps.-Zonaras.
[2] Sophokles, Elektra 690-91 (web address 1 below). Pearson and Jebb both read o(/swn for o(/son and brabh=s for brabei=s, and they obelize line 691 (from dro/mwn on). For 'heralded in' cf. epsiloniota 282.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: athletics; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 October 2002@12:41:52.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 25 October 2002@14:54:58.
David Whitehead (added note) on 26 October 2002@09:13:07.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; added x-ref) on 11 July 2005@01:22:54.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 13 June 2011@05:17:55.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 13 August 2012@00:14:38.
David Whitehead (another note; tweaks) on 23 September 2015@09:09:05.

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