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Headword: *keraoco/os
Adler number: kappa,1364
Translated headword: horn-polisher, horn-polishing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] he who works on horns.[1]
In the Epigrams: "but now a horn-polishing builder fitted me to Nikomachos."[2]
Greek Original:
*keraoco/os: o( ta\ ke/rata e)rgazo/menos. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: nu=n de/ me *nikoma/xw| keraoco/os h(/rmose te/ktwn.
Notes:
[1] A gloss on Homer, Iliad 4.110, where the phrase keraoco/os...te/ktwn is used. See also next note, for an epigram that echoes it.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.113.3 (= Sim(m)ias of Rhodes [sigma 431] fr.18.3 Powell). On this epigram, wherein a bow is fashioned from a goat's horns, see Gow and Page (vol. I, 178), (vol. II, 512-513), and another extract at iota 387.
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 October 2008@09:13:32.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 30 October 2008@12:33:52.
David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics) on 31 October 2008@03:56:55.
David Whitehead on 18 February 2013@07:22:26.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 1 August 2019@19:34:47.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference) on 16 April 2022@16:15:25.

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