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Headword:
*)/olph
Adler number: omicron,208
Translated headword: oil-flask
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A lekythos.[1] In effect being a sort of
e)laio/ph,[2] because of the oil [
e)/laion] being monitored [
o)pipeu/esqai] through it.[3]
"Since this is your birthday, [son of
Simon], Krinagoras sends me with a happy heart as a present to the house of a very dear comrade: an oil-flask of bronze, but just like silver, made in India."[4]
Greek Original:*)/olph: h( lh/kuqos. oi(onei\ e)laio/ph tis ou)=sa, dia\ to\ di' au)th=s o)pipeu/esqai to\ e)/laion. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: xa/lkeon a)rgure/w| me panei/kelon, *)indiko\n e)/rgon, o)/lphn h(di/stou cei/nion ei)s e(ta/rou, h)=mar e)pei\ to/de sei=o gene/qlion, pe/mpei ghqome/nh| su\n freni\ *krinago/rhs.
Notes:
Keywords: athletics; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; poetry; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 6 December 2009@08:12:13.
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