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Headword: *ka/qetos
Adler number: kappa,60
Translated headword: lowered-down
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The lamb let down into the sea. So Lysias and Meliton [sc. use the term].[1]
Greek Original:
*ka/qetos: o( kaqeime/nos ei)s to\ pe/lagos a)mno/s. ou(/tws *lusi/as kai\ *meli/twn.
Notes:
Abridged from Harpokration (and Photius) s.v.
[1] Lysias fr. 227 Sauppe (now 281 Carey OCT); Meliton FGrH 345 F1. In his commentary on the latter passage, Jacoby quotes other lexica where the animal concerned is an ox (offered to Poseidon), but he counsels against any assumption that the same ritual is involved.
Keywords: definition; historiography; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 28 November 2000@10:38:43.
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Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 21 August 2003@18:02:24.
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 22 August 2003@00:51:17.
David Whitehead (added more keywords; cosmetics) on 22 August 2003@02:57:55.
David Whitehead (updated note; tweaks) on 11 July 2011@03:57:13.
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