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Headword:
Bretas
Adler number: beta,534
Translated headword: likeness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] image, statue.[1]
[sc. Called this] from the fact that it looks like a mortal.[2] "To fall somewhere toward a likeness". [That is] toward a sanctuary or toward a shrine, or to become a suppliant at a statue of the gods.[3]
Greek Original:Bretas: eidôlon, agalma. para to brotôi eoikenai. prospesein poi pros bretas. pros temenos, ê pros hedos, ê pros agalma theôn hiketas genesthai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica.
[2] This etymology (false), again at
delta 1187, depends on the similarity between the headword
bre/tas and the word for 'mortal',
broto/s.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Knights 31 (where
tou, not
poi, is the preferred reading), with comment from the
scholia there.
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 October 2002@23:27:22.
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