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Headword: *(upo/dra
Adler number: upsilon,487
Translated headword: from under the brows
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] grimly/terribly.
Greek Original:
*(upo/dra: deinw=s.
Note:
The headword occurs only in the phrase u(po/dra i)dw/n, "looking from under the brows", attested twenty-six times in Homer; see e.g. the formulaic verses Iliad 1.148 (web address 1) and 4.349 (web address 2). See also tau 883, and cf. the extensive entries in Etymologicum Gudianum (three separate ones s.v. u(po/dra), Hesychius (two), Etymologicum Magnum, and Orion [Author, Myth].
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 8 May 2008@10:37:43.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule, status) on 8 May 2008@11:44:18.
David Whitehead (tweaked note) on 9 May 2008@03:32:23.
David Whitehead on 28 November 2013@03:22:43.
David Whitehead (coding) on 30 May 2016@05:08:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 9 December 2022@00:20:37.

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