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Headword:
Chalkeos
Adler number: chi,29
Translated headword: brazen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] strong, firm.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'in a brazen jar'.
Homer [writes]: "in a brazen jar was he bound for thirteen months." That is, with a bond strong and indissoluble.[2]
Alternatively there was a city called Brazen Jar.[3]
[Note] that
Didymus the grammarian was called "brazen-bowelled" because of his steadfast activity in books, for they say that he compiled more than 3500 books.[4]
Chalkeos: ischuros, stereos. kai Chalkeôi keramôi: Homêros: chalkeôi d' en keramôi dedeto triskaideka mênas. êgoun desmôi ischurôi kai duslutôi. ê polis kaleitai Chalkos keramos. hoti Didumos ho grammatikos Chalkenteros eklêthê dia tên peri ta biblia epimonên: phasi gar auton sungegraphenai huper ta trischilia pentakosia biblia.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the
Lexica Segueriana, and cf.
Hesychius (chi69) and the definition given in the
Lexeis Homerikai [web address 1] published by H. van Thiel, s.v.
xa/lkeon.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 5.387, with scholion; and cf.
Hesychius chi70: "prison, jar, and boundary"
[3] cf. the D-
scholia to
Iliad loc.cit.
[4] Quoted from
delta 872, q.v.
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Translated by: Adam McCollum on 13 March 2006@18:54:46.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (added cross-reference and keyword) on 14 March 2006@00:45:00.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; added a keyword; cosmetics) on 14 March 2006@03:27:32.
Catharine Roth (replaced link, with input from Adam McCollum) on 4 June 2007@14:09:56.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation at the instigation of Ken Dowden) on 25 June 2007@12:26:35.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaking) on 7 November 2013@06:09:59.
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