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Headword: *)/afalo/n te kai\ a)/lofon
Adler number: alpha,4549
Translated headword: both boss-less and crest-less
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] such that it might escape notice. For phaloi ["bosses"] are the shiny little disks of helmets, lophoi ["crests"] the gatherings of hair.[2]
Greek Original:
*)/afalo/n te kai\ a)/lofon: i(/na lanqa/noi. faloi\ ga\r ta\ e)pi\ tw=n perikefalaiw=n lampra\ a)spidi/skia, lo/foi de\ ai( trixw/seis.
Notes:
A phrase in the accusative case (describing headgear) from Homer, Iliad 10.258 (web address 1 below), with scholion. Diomedes [Author, Myth] and Odysseus are preparing for their night-time raid.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon.
cf. lambda 704.
[2] Again at phi 61.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 November 2001@18:17:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (augmented note) on 11 November 2001@19:07:12.
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 28 August 2002@07:32:14.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; tweaking) on 6 May 2012@05:38:48.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 26 January 2014@05:22:26.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 2 April 2015@23:57:48.
David Whitehead on 11 September 2015@04:53:30.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 22 December 2015@01:48:49.
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