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Headword:
*)epakth=res
Adler number: epsilon,1931
Translated headword: hunters
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] huntsmen. [So named] from urging on [
e)pa/gein] the dogs.[1]
Or [so named from] being urged on [
e)pa/gesqai] by the dogs: for the dogs lead on the huntsmen against the quarry.[2]
Homer [writes]: "and then the dogs were going in front searching after their tracks."[3]
*)epakth=res: kunhgoi/. a)po\ tou= e)pa/gein tou\s ku/nas. e)pa/gesqai u(po\ tw=n kunw=n: proe/lkontai ga\r oi( ku/nes tou\s kunhge/tas e)pi\ ta\ e)pago/mena. *(/omhros: pro\ d' a)/r' au)tw=n i)/xni' e)reunw=ntes ku/nes h)/i+san.
Notes:
[1] Same material, variously, in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 17.135, where the headword occurs. (This explanation is adopted in LSJ s.v.)
[2] From the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Ajax 7, where there is mention of a hunting-dog.
[3]
Homer,
Odyssey 19.435-6.
Translated by: Bobbiejo Winfrey on 11 August 2003@08:36:22.
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