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Headword:
*)afa/rteroi
Adler number: alpha,4559
Translated headword: swifter [horses]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] faster [ones].[1] From the [word]
a)/far,
a)/fartos.[2]. "The horses are swifter"; the ones [that were so] earlier.
Homer [sc. writes this].[3]
*)afa/rteroi: taxu/teroi. a)po\ tou= a)/far a)/fartos. i(/ppoi de/ toi e)/asin a)fa/rteroi: oi(\ to\ pa/ros per. *(/omhros.
Notes:
Similar material in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon.
[1] From the
scholia to the line of
Homer about to be quoted.
[2] Presented here as nominative and genitive of an adjective meaning "swift"; in fact
a)/far is mainly attested as a poetic adverb (see LSJ s.v.).
[3] An approximation of
Homer,
Iliad 23.311 (web address 1 below).
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 7 August 2001@17:35:03.
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