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Headword: *kolosso/s
Adler number: kappa,1947
Translated headword: Kolossos, Colossus
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a [sc. large] statue.[1]
"Just as the colossus of the Rhodians, being amazing because of its size, is not lovable, so neither was Sebastianus marvelous because of his lack of love for money."[2]
Greek Original:
*kolosso/s: a)/galma. w(/sper o( *(rodi/wn kolosso\s dia\ me/geqos kataplhktiko\s w)/n, ou)k e)/stin e)ra/smios, ou(/tws ou)de\ *sebastiano\s dia\ to\ a)filoxrh/maton qaumasto\s h)=n.
Notes:
[1] cf. Hesychius kappa3372 (plural).
[2] A fragment of Eunapius, given more fully (and more intelligibly) at sigma 177. On the Colossus of Rhodes, see already kappa 1932.
Keywords: art history; biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; geography; historiography; history; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2008@00:47:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 16 September 2008@04:25:00.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 7 March 2013@04:39:28.
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