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Headword:
Aphalon
te
kai
alophon
Adler number: alpha,4549
Translated headword: both boss-less and crest-less
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] such that it might escape notice. For phaloi ["bosses"] are the shiny little disks of helmets, lophoi ["crests"] the gatherings of hair.[2]
Greek Original:Aphalon te kai alophon: hina lanthanoi. phaloi gar ta epi tôn perikephalaiôn lampra aspidiskia, lophoi de hai trichôseis.
Notes:
A phrase in the accusative case (describing headgear) from
Homer,
Iliad 10.258 (web address 1 below), with scholion. Diomedes [
Author,
Myth] and Odysseus are preparing for their night-time raid.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon.
cf.
lambda 704.
[2] Again at
phi 61.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 November 2001@18:17:46.
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