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Headword: *su/skia
Adler number: sigma,1681
Translated headword: shady [places]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning ones] thick with leaves.[1] "First he cleared out the shady [parts] of the locales, then he cut down the royal/imperial gardens."[2]
Greek Original:
*su/skia: ta\ dase/a. prw=ta me\n ta\ su/skia tw=n xwri/wn a)neka/qairen, e)/peita tou\s basilikou\s paradei/sous e)ce/temen.
Notes:
[1] The headword is neuter nominative/accusative plural of su/skios; accusative if, as seems reasonable to suppose, it comes from the quotation given.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpts made for Constantine Porphyrogenitus) unidentifiable. Already, in part, at omicron 481.
Keywords: agriculture; biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2009@11:53:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked n.1; another keyword; cosmetics) on 31 December 2009@04:26:42.
David Whitehead on 23 August 2011@06:54:26.
David Whitehead (tweak) on 7 July 2013@04:31:42.
David Whitehead on 5 January 2014@06:09:51.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 April 2014@17:30:01.

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