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Headword: *kw/muqa
Adler number: kappa,2274
Translated headword: hay-bundle, sheaf
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] package of grass.[1]
"And binding together their reeds with cords and yarns, they finished off many bundles".[2]
The nominative [is] kw/muqos.[3]
Greek Original:
*kw/muqa: de/smhn xo/rtou. oi( de\ cundh/santes tou\s kala/mous kalw|di/ois te kai\ tolu/pais kw/muqas polla\s a)peirga/santo. h( eu)qei=a o( kw/muqos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly elsewhere; see the references at Photius kappa1315 Theodoridis. The headword noun is in the accusative singular, as it occurs in Theocritus, Idylls 4.18, in the scholia to which (and elsewhere) an earlier instance is cited (Cratinus fr. 299 Kock, now 302 K.-A.).
[2] Agathias, Histories 5.21 (p. 191 Keydell), using the accusative plural of the headword; cf. tau 747. The bundles of reed were fashioned into rafts, with which the invading Huns in 559 CE attempted to attack the southwest coast of the Thracian Chersonese (cf. OCD(4) s.v. Chersonesus(1), Barrington Atlas map 51 grid H3), defended by the Byzantine military leader Germanus; see also alpha 1017, pi 2385, and Frendo (157-159). On Germanus, see alpha 4595.
[3] Actually the nominative is kw=mus; the Suda (or its source) may have misunderstood the citation kw=mus kw/muqos given in Herodian. The ghost form recurs as a citation form in ps.-Zonaras, and in Gennadius Scholarius, Grammar vol. 2 p. 426 Jugie Petit & Siderides.
Reference:
J.D. Frendo, trans., Agathias: The Histories, (Berlin 1975)
Keywords: agriculture; botany; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 21 February 2009@06:07:54.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, status) on 22 February 2009@01:19:37.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 22 February 2009@03:55:05.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 22 February 2009@16:43:22.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 15 March 2013@07:18:53.
Catharine Roth (typo) on 19 January 2014@01:23:23.
David Whitehead (updated a ref) on 3 January 2015@08:40:06.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 18 September 2023@11:58:13.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Managing Editor Catharine Roth) on 18 September 2023@17:55:08.
Ronald Allen (tweak n.2, added cross-reference) on 10 November 2023@11:41:58.

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