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Headword:
*dwdekadw/rw|
Adler number: delta,1439
Translated headword: twelve hand's-breadths in length
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] being of twelve palms [in breadth].[1] For the palm [is] a hand's-breadth.[2]
In the
Epigrams: "having drawn back the [bullock's] neck they sacrificed it to
Cyllenius[3] and with a long nail they fixed its horns, twelve hand's-breadths in length, to a plane-tree."[4]
*dwdekadw/rw|: dw/deka palaistw=n o)/nti. dw=ron ga\r h( palaisth/. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: *kullhni/wn au)eru/santes e)/rrecan kai\ oi( dwdeka/dwra ke/ra a)/llw| makrote/nonti poti\ plata/niston e)pa/cai.
Notes:
[1] The headword is dative singular of the rare adjective
dwdeka/dwros. Such a dative is otherwise attested only in the
scholia to Hesiod,
Works and Days 426, where
dekadw/rw| occurs and the ancient commentator protested that the proper proportions of waggon-manufacture exposed this as an error for
dwdekadw/rw|.
[2] cf.
delta 1472,
epsilon 406.
[3] Pan (the son of Hermes - to whom the epithet is more usually applied: cf.
kappa 2660)
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.96.3-5 (Erucius), the mss of which provide the following readings, translated here:
*kullhni/w|,
a(llw (marked with a query; the emendation of Salmasius [Claude de Saumaise, 1588-1653],
a(/lw|, is translated),
e)/pacan.
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 8 January 2005@06:22:00.
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