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Headword: *kni/shs
Adler number: kappa,1877
Translated headword: of savor, of steam
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] of fat, of rising vapor.[1]
"As the steam became distributed and fell upon [him], [he] asked for [some] of the meat."[2]
Greek Original:
*kni/shs: li/pous, a)naqumia/sews. th=s de\ kni/shs diadosi/mou genome/nhs kai\ prospesou/shs, h)/|thse tou= kre/ws.
Notes:
[1] Genitive singular of kni=sa (kappa 1876). Same or similar glossing in other lexica (see the references at Photius kappa830 Theodoridis); perhaps extracted from the quotation given here, but more probably from Homer, where there are 7 instances (one of which, Iliad 1.66, has 'of fat' in the scholia).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 December 2008@00:23:44.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 December 2008@03:43:27.
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded notes) on 24 March 2011@08:10:36.
David Whitehead on 5 March 2013@06:53:18.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 11 March 2013@02:11:52.

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