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Headword:
*)amfiru/th
Adler number: alpha,1759
Translated headword: sea-girt
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] encircled with a current.[1]
In [the]
Epigrams: "sea-girt Cos, yet again you bring such sorrow to
Hippocrates."[2]
Greek Original:*)amfiru/th: perirreome/nh ku/klw|. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)mfiru/th *kw=os, kai\ pa/lin pe/nqos e)/xeis oi(=on e)f' *(ippokra/tei.
Notes:
The headword, perhaps extracted from the quotation given (though see next note), is feminine nominative singular of this adjective.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. The dative singular in
Homer,
Odyssey 1.50 (and three other instances), may have generated this nominative; cf. the
scholia there
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.588.3-4.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; geography; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 August 2000@00:18:46.
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