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Headword: *yilo/n
Adler number: psi,104
Translated headword: bare
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] naked.[1]
Also [used] meaning bereft.[2]
"Later the beasts were captured, bare of their Indian [drivers]."[3]
Greek Original:
*yilo/n: gumno/n. kai\ a)nti\ tou= e)/rhmon. ta\ de\ qhri/a u(/steron e(a/lw yila\ tw=n *)indw=n.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword is masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective (for which cf. psi 105, psi 106); masculine if, as it seems, it is extracted from Sophocles, Electra 426 (where a corpse is described as 'bare' and the scholia comment gumno\n th=s ko/news).
[2] So too already in Hesychius.
[3] Polybius 11.1.12, concerning the Carthaginian war-elephants (web address 1).
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 January 2006@22:48:40.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; cosmetics) on 15 January 2006@04:59:34.
Catharine Roth (added a word to note 2) on 15 January 2006@18:45:55.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 5 August 2011@05:46:27.
Catharine Roth (betacode typo, upgraded link) on 5 August 2011@12:45:00.
David Whitehead on 6 November 2013@06:49:04.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 17 August 2023@00:44:46.

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