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Headword: *kath/koe
Adler number: kappa,1045
Translated headword: hearkener
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] listener.[1] "O greatest among the goddesses, and hearkener to your attendants."[2]
And elsewhere: "after these events they became hearkeners [i.e. obedient]."[3]
Greek Original:
*kath/koe: a)kroata/. w)= megi/sth qew=n, kai\ tw=n sw=n kath/koe qerapo/ntwn. kai\ au)=qis: oi( de\ meta\ tau=ta e)ge/nonto kath/kooi.
Notes:
[1] Both the headword (presumably drawn from the first quotation given) and its gloss are vocative singular.
[2] Tentatively attribted by Adler to Iamblichus; now Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 38 Habrich.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable. The sense 'be obedient' is common in Herodotus (see LSJ s.v. II); also in e.g. Procopius.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Alexandra Trachsel on 17 February 2009@06:01:19.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 17 February 2009@21:45:34.
David Whitehead (augmented and rearranged notes; more keywords; cosmetics) on 18 February 2009@03:29:10.
David Whitehead on 10 February 2013@09:24:33.

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