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Headword: *)ali/menon
Adler number: alpha,1227
Translated headword: harbourless
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the [furrow] which does not have an end, or even a start.
Greek Original:
*)ali/menon: th\n te/los ou)k e)/xousan, ou)de\ o(/rmon.
Note:
Likewise in ps.-Zonaras. The headword (accusative case, as the glossing shows) occurs in Aristophanes, Birds 1400 ("cutting a harbourless furrow of sky" -- see Dunbar 672 on the mixed metaphor there), and the gloss is that of a scholiast thereto.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Birds, edited with introduction and commentary by Nan Dunbar (Oxford 1995)
Keywords: agriculture; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 May 2000@14:17:45.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note, bibliography, keyword) on 29 January 2001@08:06:43.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 28 November 2005@10:17:04.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks) on 6 February 2012@06:59:20.
David Whitehead on 1 June 2015@11:48:38.
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