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Headword:
*ti/tanon
Adler number: tau,678
Translated headword: gypsum, lime
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] white, or chalky, dust.[1]
Burned stone, which formerly they [used to call] ti/tanos, but now they call asbestos.[2]
Greek Original:*ti/tanon: leuko/n, h)\ gu/yon, koni/an. li/qos diakekaume/nh, h(\n pa/lai me\n ti/tanon, nuni\ de\ a)/sbeston kalou=si.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the
Synagoge and
Photius'
Lexicon; similarly elsewhere. The headword is accusative singular of
tau 679, evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] Derived from
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 6.27.21; cf.
tau 679.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 January 2014@01:05:41.
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