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Headword:
*gna/faloi
Adler number: gamma,327
Translated headword: mattress-stuffing, flock
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Someone seemed [in a dream] to have sheaves of wheat in his mattress instead of stuffing [...] And he begot a male infant.[1]
"With the feathers lying beneath jaws."[2]
Greek Original:*gna/faloi. e)/doce/ tis e)n th=| tu/lh| purou\s e)/xein a)nti\ gnafa/lwn. kai\ paida/rion e)ge/nnhsen a)/rren. pti/lwn tw=n u(po\ gna/qois keime/nwn.
Notes:
On the face of it this unglossed headword is the plural of
gnaphalos, a bird of unknown type mentioned by
Aristotle); but in fact this
gnaphaloi is a variant of
knaphalla or
knephalla: see LSJ s.v.
knephallon and
kappa 1858.
[1] Abbreviated from
Artemidorus 5.8; cf.
tau 1151.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (It is perhaps given here because feathers served the same purpose as the headword, rather than because of the similarity between the headword and the word for jaws,
gnathoi.)
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 July 2002@10:46:18.
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