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Headword: *ou)=ros
Adler number: omicron,955
Translated headword: aurochs
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"and the horns of an aurochs[1] adorned with brilliantly shining gold".[2]
Greek Original:
*ou)=ros. kai\ boo\s ou)=ron a)skhto\n xrusw=| pamfano/wnti ke/ras.
Notes:
The unglossed headword (on which see next note) is in the nominative case.
[1] (Read the genitive ou)/rou here, with Paton, rather than the transmitted accusative ou)=ron; see already at lambda 609.) The animal bou=s ou)=ros is probably the wild aurochs (Latin urus), now extinct. See LSJ s.v. ou)=ros D (web address 1) and web address 2.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.332.3-4 (Hadrian), describing a dedication that Trajan made to Zeus (see Paton ad loc. note 1).
Reference:
Paton, W.R. 1916. The Greek Anthology. Harvard
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Kyle Helms on 15 August 2010@18:09:00.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied headword and introductory note; x-ref; more keywords; tweaks) on 16 August 2010@04:22:45.
David Whitehead on 2 August 2013@03:56:26.
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