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Headword: *samfo/ras
Adler number: sigma,85
Translated headword: san-bearing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of horse branded with the letter s[igma]; the Dorians call s[igma] san.[1]
Greek Original:
*samfo/ras: ei)=dos i(/ppou e)gkexaragme/nou to\ s1 shmei=on. oi( de\ *dwriei=s to\ s1 sa\n le/gousi.
Notes:
From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 603, where the headword occurs (web address 1); cf. Clouds 122 (web address 2) and (echoing Knights 603) 1298; and Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 11.467B (11.30 Kaibel).
On horse-branding see generally kappa 2055.
[1] On san see e.g. A.G. Woodhead, The Study of Greek Epigraphy (edn.2, Cambridge 1981) 15-16. In appearance it was like a sigma rotated 90 degrees to the right (producing a result akin to a modern capital M).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 October 2001@03:31:57.
Vetted by:
Elizabeth Vandiver (Added links; set status) on 15 October 2004@21:35:46.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 16 October 2004@05:21:02.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; cosmetics) on 16 August 2011@08:13:36.
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