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Headword:
*di/kella
Adler number: delta,1087
Translated headword: fork, mattock
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] farm implement [of that name].[1]
"[For] those obtaining their livelihood not with oxen and fork, but with horse and sword."[2]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] dikelli/ths ["fork-man/fork-user"].[3]
Greek Original:*di/kella: gewrgiko\n e)rgalei=on. ou) bousi\ kai\ dike/llh| porizome/nois to\n bi/on, a)ll' i(/ppw| kai\ maxai/ra|. kai\ *dikelli/ths.
Notes:
[1] For the headword (already under
alpha 365), which etymologically denotes an implement with two prongs, see e.g.
Aeschylus fr. 196;
Sophocles,
Antigone 250;
Euripides,
Phoenissae 1155. (It occurs as a gloss for
makella in
scholia on Lucian,
Hesiodus 7; and see
mu 67.)
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
[3] See Lucian,
Timon 8.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 April 2005@18:39:08.
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