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Headword: *)okolou/m
Adler number: omicron,118
Translated headword: oculus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Horatius the Roman was mutilated in the eye and [therefore] called Cocles; for Romans call the eye an oculus.
Greek Original:
*)okolou/m: e)phrw/qh *(wra/tios o( *(rwmai=os to\n o)fqalmo\n kai\ e)peklh/qh *ko/klhs: to\n ga\r o)fqalmo\n o)kolou\m kalou=si *(rwmai=oi.
Notes:
Accusative singular, in fact, of the Latin oculus.
cf. kappa 1921, and the origin of them both: epsilon 1610.
Keywords: biography; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; medicine
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 November 2002@04:07:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 29 November 2002@12:41:13.
David Whitehead on 28 July 2004@10:27:25.
David Whitehead on 23 June 2013@08:28:06.
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