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Headword: *platagh/
Adler number: pi,1697
Translated headword: rattle
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of instrument, producing sound and noise.
"He made a bronze rattle and rattled it."[1]
Greek Original:
*platagh/: ei)=dos o)rga/nou, h)=xon kai\ yo/fon a)potelou=ntos. o( de\ platagh\n xalkeusa/menos e)plata/gei.
Notes:
Same material at alpha 4121; see also pi 1698 and pi 1712.
[1] From Nicolaus of Damascus, argues Favuzzi (cited under delta 404). On the myth of Heracles and the Stymphalian birds cf. Etymologicum Magnum 731.42-44 and the scholia on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.1052ff.
Keywords: definition; epic; historiography; meter and music; mythology; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 September 2012@00:15:34.
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David Whitehead (another x-ref; cosmetics) on 9 September 2012@05:08:30.
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David Whitehead (expanded n.1) on 12 March 2014@06:51:13.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 6 July 2014@23:43:57.
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