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Headword:
*xola/des
Adler number: chi,377
Translated headword: guts
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the entrails.[1]
In the Epigrams: "and a lance which often tasted the enemies' guts."[2]
Greek Original:*xola/des: ta\ e)/ntera. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)ntibi/wn te polla/kis e)gxei/hn geusame/nhn xola/dwn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica and grammars, and see also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.536 = 21.181, where the nominative plural headword occurs.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.81.1-2 , Paul the Silentiary (using the genitive plural of the headword), already quoted at
epsilon 178. Find further quotes from this epigram at
alpha 1136 and
beta 50.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 February 2006@18:39:40.
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