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Headword:
*boli/s
Adler number: beta,365
Translated headword: throwing-spear
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] missile, javelin, small lance.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] bo/los ["casting-net"], that which is thrown in catching fish.
In the Epigrams: "Pigres throwing his casting-net at winged [birds], Cleitoros [his] among the sea-creatures, Damis [his] among the desert beasts."[2] And elsewhere: "a crag well trodden by fish-spearing gulls".[3]
Also [sc. attested is] bo/los ["cast"], in the Epigrams: "and the cork which serves as the sign of his hidden casts".[4]
Greek Original:*boli/s: be/los, a)ko/ntion, logxa/rion. kai\ *bo/los, to\ ballo/menon ei)s a)/gran i)xqu/wn. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: *pi/grhs me\n ptanoi=sin e)fei\s bo/lon, e)n d' a(li/oisi *klei/twros, e)n qhrsi\n *da=mis e)rhmono/mois. kai\ au)=qis: eu)stibe\s ai)qui/ais i)xqubo/loisi le/pas. kai\ *bo/los, e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kai\ fello\n krufi/wn sh=ma laxo/nta bo/lwn.
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Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; military affairs; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2002@00:19:40.
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