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Headword: *trika/rhnos
Adler number: tau,979
Translated headword: three-headed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Having three heads.
Greek Original:
*trika/rhnos: o( trei=s kefala\s e)/xwn.
Notes:
Adler reports a similar ('cf.') entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
Herodotus 9.81.1 uses this adjective of the bronze three-headed serpent at Delphi; and cf. generally tau 978 (a toponym).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; religion; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 19 May 2011@06:45:06.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, set status) on 20 May 2011@01:01:27.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords) on 20 May 2011@03:39:13.
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