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Headword: Amalê
Adler number: alpha,1463
Translated headword: corn-bundle, sheaf
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the crop.
And [there is] a saying:[1] "with the very sheaves": in reference to those who are utterly destroyed, as if to the very foundations.
Greek Original:
Amalê: ho karpos. kai paroimia: Autais amalais: epi tôn panôlethriai diaphtheiromenôn, hoionei autois bathrois.
Notes:
Again, with the two elements reversed, at alpha 4465.
The noun is more usually found with double lambda: see LSJ s.v.
[1] Not in the paroemiographers.
Keywords: agriculture; botany; daily life; definition; food; imagery; military affairs; proverbs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 June 2000@07:47:39.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keyword) on 6 February 2001@07:14:22.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 5 July 2002@03:54:34.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 11 February 2012@08:18:48.
David Whitehead on 14 June 2015@09:30:34.
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