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Headword: *bouto/rois
Adler number: beta,471
Translated headword: ox-piercing (ones)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] those which strike oxen. "The Maurousians have spears the same as ox-piercing spits."[1]
Greek Original:
*bouto/rois: toi=s plh/ttousi tou\s bo/as. *maurou/sioi e)/xousi do/rata bouto/rois o)beloi=s i)/sa.
Notes:
The headword adjective is dative plural, presumably extracted from the quotation given. (In ps.-Zonaras headword and gloss are in the nominative/accusative.)
[1] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable; but for the Maurousians (Mauretanians, Moors) of what is now Libya see mu 298.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; geography; military affairs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 June 2002@12:18:43.
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David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 12 June 2002@04:27:17.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; more keywords; tweaks) on 13 June 2011@03:11:43.
David Whitehead on 3 June 2012@05:53:57.
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