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Headword:
Dolicha
Adler number: delta,1336
Translated headword: long (ones)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] lengthy [ones], large [ones].[1]
*do/lixos ["the long course" is the course for] horse-races. From the [fact that it entails] turning; but the
sta/dion [is] a straight course.[2]
Dolicha: makra, polla. Dolichos, to hippodromion. apo tou kamptein: stadion de ho orthos dromos.
Notes:
See also
delta 1338 (and
delta 1340).
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.533, where this neuter nominative/accusative plural occurs (as
doli/x'), of Thracian lances.
[2] Copied from here to
delta 807. See also
delta 1339, where the different accentuation of the noun and the adjective is noted.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2005@00:47:06.
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