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Headword: *(edw/lia
Adler number: epsilon,255
Translated headword: decking
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the planks of ships; strictly speaking, the ones on which the rowers sit.[1]
Thrones.
Alternatively seats, [as in] Sophocles: "anciently-wealthy seats of his father".[2] Meaning ancient residences.
Greek Original:
*(edw/lia: ta\ sanidw/mata tw=n ploi/wn: kuri/ws, e)f' w(=n oi( e)re/tai kaqe/zontai. kaqe/drai. h)\ e(dra/smata, *sofoklh=s: a)rxaio/plouta patro\s e(dw/lia. a)nti\ tou= a)rxai=a oi)kh/mata.
Notes:
LSJ s.v. e(dw/lion cites further instances of the several, related meanings this word can bear; and cf. epsilon 257 (also epsiloniota 42).
[1] From Harpokration s.v. e(dwlia/sai, citing Herodotus 1.24.4.
[2] Sophocles, Elektra 1393, with scholion.
Keywords: daily life; definition; historiography; science and technology; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2000@05:15:02.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 9 September 2002@00:49:03.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords) on 9 September 2002@04:09:16.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 6 July 2011@07:34:57.
David Whitehead on 6 December 2015@07:31:30.
Catharine Roth (cross-reference) on 1 April 2018@00:10:34.
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