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Headword:
*xhlai/
Adler number: chi,275
Translated headword: breakwaters
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the stones that are laid in front of a wall that faces the sea, on account of the force of the waves, so that the wall will not be damaged. [The term is derived] from the fact that it looks like the hoof [xhlh/] of an ox.
Greek Original:*xhlai/: oi( e)/mprosqen tou= pro\s qa/lassan tei/xous probeblhme/noi li/qoi, dia\ th\n tw=n kuma/twn bi/an, mh\ to\ tei=xos bla/ptoito. para\ to\ e)oike/nai xhlh=| boo/s.
Notes:
The gloss is taken from the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.63.1 (where a form of the headword appears: web address 1 below).
For the zoological sense of the headword see
chi 276.
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; imagery; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 March 2008@15:37:14.
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