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Headword: Apeskuthizon
Adler number: alpha,3062
Translated headword: they were scalping Scythian-style
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Properly [this means] to cut off the skin on the head, hairs and all, but by a misuse of language [it is] "to cut [the hair]".
Greek Original:
Apeskuthizon: kuriôs to apotemein to epi tês kephalês derma sun thrixi, katachrêstikôs de to apokeirai.
Note:
From alpha 3533. See also pi 1286, pi 1287.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 26 January 2001@08:45:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 15 March 2001@04:31:44.
David Whitehead (added keywords) on 19 August 2002@03:10:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaks, cross-references) on 1 December 2011@01:17:13.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 March 2012@06:42:44.
David Whitehead on 6 August 2015@10:54:14.
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