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Headword: Astomoi hippoi
Adler number: alpha,4244
Translated headword: hard-mouthed horses
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones] difficult to control with the bit. "Hard-mouthed colts carry [Orestes] violently."[1]
Greek Original:
Astomoi hippoi: sklêrostomoi. astomoi pôloi biai pherousin.
Notes:
Sophocles, Electra 724-5 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
The present headword phrase could come from another (unidentifiable) source, but is more probably just a broader version of Sophocles' phrase.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; medicine; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 January 2002@06:04:32.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 6 January 2002@11:16:39.
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