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Headword: *bath/r
Adler number: beta,181
Translated headword: threshold
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the beginning of the dug-up landing area for those [sc. competing in the long jump] in the pentathlon. "You have struck the very threshold of the argument," one says. Meaning the most important and chiefmost [point].[1]
Greek Original:
*bath/r: h( a)rxh\ tou= tw=n penta/qlou ska/mmatos. au)to\n ke/kroukas to\n bath=ra tou= lo/gou, fhsi/ tis. oi(=on to\ e)pikairo/taton kai\ to\ prw=ton.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[1] cf. already at alpha 4511.
Keywords: athletics; comedy; daily life; definition; imagery; proverbs; rhetoric
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 13 June 2002@10:27:12.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 14 June 2002@06:09:40.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 6 March 2011@07:12:36.
David Whitehead on 23 May 2012@07:48:35.
David Whitehead (another note) on 18 September 2015@03:27:01.

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