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Headword: *pli/c
Adler number: pi,1780
Translated headword: stride, step
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Hence also periba/dhn ["straddling over"], [is expressed by] a)mfipli/c ["astride"], by Sophocles in Triptolemus.[1] And Homer [writes]: "well did they gallop, well did they stride with their feet."[2] They used to call pli/ca also the distance from the thumb to the forefinger, also the bone between the thigh[bone]s.[3]
Greek Original:
*pli/c: e)/nqen kai\ to\ periba/dhn, a)mfipli\c para\ *sofoklei= e)n *triptole/mw|. kai\ *(/omhros: ai( d' eu)= me\n tro/xwn, eu)= de\ pli/ssonto po/dessin. e)/legon de\ pli/can kai\ to\ a)po\ tou= a)nti/xeiros ei)s to\n lixano\n da/ktulon dia/sthma: kai\ to\ metacu\ tw=n mhrw=n o)stou=n.
Notes:
Material rearranged from alpha 3031 (q.v.); hence the odd start here.
The headword, already at pi 1779, is a Doric dialect feminine noun in the nominative and vocative singular; see generally LSJ s.v., and cf. the plural form at pi 1771.
[1] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Acharnians 217 (web address 1). The glossing adverb a)mfipli/c is from Sophocles fr. 596 Radt; cf. alpha 3031 and pi 1076. Demeter despatched the hero Triptolemus (cf. rho 50 gloss) in a chariot to teach agriculture to the Greeks. As described in Sophocles' lost tragedy and shown on some vases (Gardner, p. 252), Triptolemus' chariot carried two serpents straddling or coiled about the axles; Lloyd-Jones, pp. 302-3.
[2] Homer, Odyssey 6.318 (web address 2).
[3] i.e. the pelvis.
References:
P. Gardner, The Principles of Greek Art, New York: Macmillan, 1921
H. Lloyd-Jones, ed. and trans., Sophocles: Fragments, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; art history; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine; mythology; zoology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 2 March 2011@22:37:55.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 March 2011@03:21:23.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 6 October 2013@08:49:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 20 September 2021@00:16:55.

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