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Headword: Blêchron
Adler number: beta,340
Translated headword: faint
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] weak in Homer[1] and in Alcaeus;[2] but Pindar says this to mean strong.[3]
Greek Original:
Blêchron: asthenes para Homêrôi kai Alkaiôi: Pindaros de anti tou ischurou auto legei.
Notes:
cf. alpha 58.
[1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 8.178, where the phrase tei/xea ... a)blh/xr' (sic) occurs (web address 1 below). The Suda's neuter singular blhxro/n seems to be quoted from Nicander, Theriaca 446, which the scholia there gloss with a)sqene/s.
[2] Alcaeus fr. 319 Lobel-Page (16 Bergk).
[3] Pindar fr. 245 Snell-Maehler.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 17 April 2002@21:43:07.
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David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 2 September 2002@05:10:30.
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