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Headword:
*ko/lon
Adler number: kappa,1946
Translated headword: docked
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] empty, vain, curtailed.
Homer [writes]: "he brandished all vainly a docked spear in the hand".[1]
And in the
Epigrams: "this docked horn, two cubits long, [Saon], the cattleman from Ambracia [sc. dedicated], having broken it off a bull that left the herd".[2]
*ko/lon: keno/n, ma/taion, kolobo/n. *(/omhros: ph=l' au(/tws e)n xeiri\ ko/lon do/ru. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: tou=to to\ di/phxu ko/lon ke/ras ou)mbrakiw/ths boumolgo\s tau/rou kla/ssas a)timage/lou.
Notes:
The headword is neuter singular of this adjective, presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Homer,
Iliad 16.117 (web address 1).
[2] A close approximation of
Greek Anthology 6.255.1-2 (
Erycius); cf.
alpha 4362,
beta 445,
omicron 915. The ancient city of Ambracia (
Ambrakia) is in northwestern Greece; cf.
alpha 1536.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 29 December 2008@19:05:13.
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