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Headword:
*protomai\
basilikai/
Adler number: pi,2890
Translated headword: royal protomes, royal busts, royal imagines
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] royal images. Also [sc. attested are] protomes of lions, and likewise in the case of others.[1]
But properly 'protome' is used in the case of non-reasoning animals.[2]
"Having molded protomes of quadrupeds on the tips of the ships he encased them in bronze, on account of the necessity for rams."[3]
Greek Original:*protomai\ basilikai/: ei)ko/nes basilikai/. kai\ protomai\ leo/ntwn, kai\ o(moi/ws e)pi\ tw=n a)/llwn. kuri/ws de\ e)pi\ tw=n a)lo/gwn zw/|wn h( protomh\ le/getai. toi=s de\ tw=n ploi/wn a)/krois tetrapo/dwn protoma\s a)potupw/sas xalkw=| perie/labe, dia\ to\ tw=n e)mbo/lwn xreiw=des.
Notes:
The headword phrase is not attested outside lexicography either in this case and number (nominative plural) or any other.
On protomes see also the next entry,
pi 2891.
[1] =
Photius,
Lexicon pi1406 Theodoridis (which however has a single lion); cf.
Synagoge pi729,
Hesychius pi4003. For protomes of lions see e.g.
Diodorus Siculus 1.62.4 (cited by Theodoridis) and 18.27.3.
[2] cf.
pi 2891.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta of Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable.
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 October 2013@18:08:52.
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