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Headword:
*)argillw/dhs
Adler number: alpha,3775
Translated headword: clayey, clay-like
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dirty.[1]
Or "clay-like earth" [
a)rgilw/dhs gh=], [meaning] white and pure.[2]
"Beside the long road this clay vessel holds
Democritus' dead cricket which sings with his wings."[3]
*)argillw/dhs: o( r(uparo/s. h)\ *)argilw/dhs gh=, leukh\ kai\ kaqara/. a)kri/da *dhmokri/tou melesi/pteron a(/de qanou=san a)/rgilos dolixa\n a)mfi\ ke/leuqon e)/xei.
Notes:
The headword adjective can be spelled in either of the ways illustrated here: see LSJ s.v.
[1] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including
Timaeus'
Platonic Lexicon. Perhaps stemming from the Arabian and Syrian
gh=n ... a)rgilwdeste/rhn in
Herodotus 2.12.3.
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.194.3 (Mnasalces), an epitaph for a cricket owned by one
Democritus; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 143) and (vol. II, 408-409).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Keywords: biography; definition; geography; historiography; imagery; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 June 2001@23:17:17.
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