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Headword:
*(olka/s
Adler number: omicron,171
Translated headword: holkas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: In
Thucydides [sc. this word] means a merchant ship.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the plural]
o(lka/des, [meaning] boats.
"The barbarian horde crossed over in the so-called long
holkades."[2]
*(olka/s: para\ *qoukudi/dh| h( e)mporikh\ nau=s. kai\ *(olka/des, ploi=a. e)n tai=s dh\ legome/nais o(lka/si makrai=s ta\ barbarika\ diebi/basan plh/qh.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Thucydides 2.91.3. (The word, and sense, is not of course confined to this author.)
[2]
Menander Protector fr. 21 Blockley. The phrase has the air of paradox or oxymoron about it, because elsewhere it is common to find merchant ships and 'long ships' (i.e. warships) as opposites; cf.
epsilon 995, with a different adjective.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 November 2009@07:16:28.
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