Search results for delta,1434 in Adler number:
Headword: Dochmê Adler number: delta,1434 Translated headword: a hand's breadth Vetting Status: high Translation:
[Meaning a] span.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "before wearing [it] a day it was more than two hands' breadth [wide]."[2]
Greek Original:
Dochmê: spithamê. Aristophanês: prin hêmeran phorêsai meizon ên duoin dochmain.
Notes:
cf. pi 63.
[1] (Likewise or similarly in other lexica.) Approx. nine inches; but contrast delta 1435.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 318 (web address 1), on faulty shoe-leather; see again delta 1435.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented and rearranged notes; added a keyword) on 8 March 2005@03:00:08. Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 1 August 2011@21:48:23. David Whitehead (more keywords) on 17 July 2012@04:23:45. David Whitehead on 17 July 2012@04:24:44. David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 27 January 2014@04:28:07. David Whitehead (expanded n.1; cosmetics) on 14 November 2015@09:27:42.
