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Headword: *sfa/ragon
Adler number: sigma,1717
Translated headword: gullet, rumble
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Apion [calls] the throat spharagos.[1] [The term comes] from the noise which occurs around it.
Greek Original:
*sfa/ragon: o( *)api/wn fa/rugga. a)po\ tou= peri\ au)to\n ginome/nou yo/fou.
Notes:
Likewise in the Synagoge (sigma402), Photius' Lexicon (sigma860 Theodoridis), and, post-Suda, the Etymologicum Magnum. Similarly in (e.g.) Hesychius and Apollonius the Sophist, Homeric Lexicon 147.30, who says that the word in Homer (Iliad 22.328) should be a)sfa/ragon; sfa/ragon came from a mis-division.
cf. alpha 4297.
[1] Apion fr. 130 Neitzel.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 July 2014@22:24:33.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded notes; cosmetics; raised status) on 22 July 2014@03:09:17.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 22 July 2014@10:08:47.

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