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Headword: *pru/lis
Adler number: pi,2984
Translated headword: armed dance; man-at-arms
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the infantryman.
Greek Original:
*pru/lis: o( pezo/s.
Note:
For the headword in the sense of 'armed dance' see Callimachus, Hymn to Zeus 52, Hymn to Artemis 240, and generally LSJ s.v. (equating it with the pyrrhic dance, pi 3225). However, as glossed here (and in ps.-Zonaras s.v.) it reflects the epic plural prule/es, denoting men-at-arms, foot-soldiers (LSJ s.v.). For this see Homer, Iliad 5.744, 11.49, 12.77, 15.517 and 21.90; see also the corresponding scholia, and Eustathius, esp. on 5.743 ff.); also Hesiod, Shield 193, and in later poets such as Oppian and Nonnus. It is glossed in Etymologicum Magnum s.v. prule/es; cf. Hesychius s.vv. e(kato\n po/lewn prule/ess’ a)rarui=an, prulei=s, prule/es, and prule/ess’ a)rarui=a.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 3 June 2007@18:36:04.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword; tweaked note; more keywords) on 4 June 2007@04:49:23.
David Whitehead on 29 November 2011@05:15:44.
Catharine Roth (deleted links) on 21 September 2013@00:54:36.
David Whitehead on 22 October 2013@06:46:36.
David Whitehead (codings) on 25 May 2016@03:52:14.
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