[Meaning something that has been] covered. "Twice four-fathomed,[1] soiled with much foam."[2]
*peforugme/non: kekalumme/non. dissa/ki tetro/guion pollw=| peforugme/non a)frw=|.
The headword, perfect middle/passive participle of the verb
foru/ssw, is extracted from the quotation given.
The entry explains an obscure usage of a word from an epigram (ascribed to Antipater) in
Greek Anthology 6.223.2; it describes a sea-creature called a scolopendra (
sigma 646). See also
omicron 521.
[1]
tetro/guion is
tetro/rguion.
[2] The lexicographer has
pollw=| for the epigram's
a(/pan: "all soiled with foam."
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