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Headword:
*steleo/s
Adler number: sigma,1030
Translated headword: shaft, handle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "For if you [oak trees] did not keep producing all the handles, a farmer would not have an axe in his house."
Babrius the fabulist says [this].
*steleo/s. ei) mh\ ga\r u(mei=s stelea\ pa/nta ti/kthte, ou)k a)\n gewrgo\s pe/lekun e)n do/mois ei)=xe. *ba/brios fhsi\n o( muqogra/fos.
Notes:
Babrius 142.7-8 (Rutherford 141.1-2, Crusius 143.4-5: manuscript readings vary); Zeus speaking.
This seems to be the plural of
steleo/n (
sigma 1029) rather than of
steleo/s;
stelea/ also occurs. LSJ entries at web address 1, web address 2, web address 3.
See also
sigma 1079.
Reference:
E. Husselman, TAPhA 66.122
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: agriculture; botany; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 27 February 2001@11:24:10.
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