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Headword:
*po/stos
Adler number: pi,2119
Translated headword: which (in the ordinal series)?
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [*po/stos comes] from po/satos, by syncope.[1] But it is also applied to quantity.[2] For example, "What year is [he] living?"[3] Also, "What hour of the day [is it]?"[4]
Greek Original:*po/stos: a)po\ tou= po/satos, kata\ sugkoph/n. ta/ssetai de\ e)pi\ poso/thtos. oi(=on, po/ston a)/gei e)/tos; kai/, po/sth w(/ra th=s h(me/ras;
Notes:
[1] The gloss
po/satos is attested only in grammarians, beginning with ps.-Herodian, etymologizing (as here) the interrogative adjective
po/stos. But cf.
pollosto/s (
pi 1925,
pi 1926).
[2] cf. ps.-
Ammonius,
De impropriis 29.
[3] That is, 'How old is he?' The quotation is unidentifiable, but cf.
Homer,
Odyssey 24.288,
po/ston dh\ e)/tos e)sti/n, o(/te cei/nissas e)kei=non, 'What year is it, since you entertained him?'
[4] Again, unidentifiable.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 January 2013@23:57:33.
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