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Headword: Xouthon
Adler number: xi,81
Translated headword: vibrant; tawny
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] light, dry, silvery, blond, beautiful, dense, sharp, swift; but some [take it as] mottled, attractive, translucent.[1]
"Just like a tawny gryphon shaking its crests."[2]
Greek Original:
Xouthon: lepton, kapuron, arguroun, xanthon, kalon, puknon, oxu, tachu: hoi de poikilon, eueides, diauges. hôsper xouthos hippalektruôn tous lophous seiôn.
Notes:
[1] Adjective of uncertain meaning (see already xi 79, xi 80), here in the neuter nominative/accusative singular, evidently quoted from somewhere; same glossing elsewhere (references at Photius xi37 Theodoridis).
[2] Aristophanes, Peace 1177-1178 (text at web address 1), on an ostentatious but cowardly taxiarch. On the 'gryphon' -- literally, horse-cockerel -- cf. iota 516.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; military affairs; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: James L. P. Butrica ✝ on 18 February 2000@08:25:35.
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