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Headword:
*)axurmiai/
Adler number: alpha,4721
Translated headword: chaff-heaps
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the places into which the winnowed chaff is thrown.[1]
And in the Epigrams: "and sharp chaff-winnowing threshing-boards."[2]
Greek Original:*)axurmiai/: oi( to/poi, ei)s ou(\s ta\ a)/xura a)pofe/retai likmw/mena. kai\ e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ tribo/lous o)cei=s a)xuro/tribas.
Notes:
For chaff see also
epsilon 591.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 5.502, where the headword occurs.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.104.3. The implement called the
tribolos is a board with sharp stones fixed in the bottom used for threshing.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@23:30:59.
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