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Headword: *si/palos
Adler number: sigma,470
Translated headword: ugly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] shapeless.
Greek Original:
*si/palos: o( a)/morfos.
Note:
Similarly in other lexica, esp. Etymologicum Magnum 714.5-6, which quotes a hexameter line taken to come from Callimachus: see LSJ s.v., and more explicitly Pfeiffer, designating it Hecale fr. 289 (a)lla\ su\ me\n sipalo/s te kai\ o)fqalmoi=sin e)/fhlos "but you are ugly and have specks in your eyes").
Keywords: definition; ethics; medicine; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 21 January 2014@09:00:53.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, set status) on 21 January 2014@18:28:37.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 22 January 2014@03:25:16.

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