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Headword: *ste/rna xqono\s kai\ nw=ta xqono/s
Adler number: sigma,1053
Translated headword: breasts of earth and backs of earth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the plain-like and broad; just as in turn [sc. they call] narrow things 'necks'. Sophocles [writes]: "of breast-holding earth." Meaning of level ground.
Greek Original:
*ste/rna xqono\s kai\ nw=ta xqono/s: ta\ pediw/dh, kai\ eu)re/a: kaqa/per au)= pa/lin au)xe/nas ta\ stena/. *sofoklh=s: sternou/xou xqono/s. a)nti\ tou= gh=s e)pipe/dou.
Note:
Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 691 (web address 1), with comments derived from the scholia thereto. The two metaphorical expressions that are comprised in the Suda's headword phrase feature in those scholia, without attribution. The first is attested (though in the singular) at Pindar, Paean fr. 52d.14 Snell-Maehler. The second occurs in Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.1246 (and already, with the two words reversed, in Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 46).
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 2 April 2014@12:07:54.
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