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Headword:
*di/krana
Adler number: delta,1106
Translated headword: pitchforks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Pitchforks, too, had been prepared, so as to push away the bringing-up of the so-called scalae ["ladders"]."
Greek Original:*di/krana: pareskeu/asto de\ kai\ di/krana w(/ste a)pwqei=sqai th\n tw=n legome/nwn skalw=n prosagwgh/n.
Notes:
The headword, neuter nominative plural, is presumably extracted from the quotation given, an unidentifiable siege-narrative (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti).
The noun
dikranon appears in contexts of comedy/satire (
Aristophanes, Lucian) and medicine (Galen) as well as lexica and grammars (
Hesychius, Herodian,
Photius, ps.-
Zonaras, the
Etymologicum Magnum). It is a wooden (
Etym.Magn. 506.18) gardening implement as well as a defensive weapon; cf. the diminutive in the gloss at
delta 1109 (LSJ entry at web address 1). The adjective
dikranos means "two-headed."
For
ska/la, Latin
scala, cf.
alpha 1811,
kappa 1806,
sigma 520.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; medicine; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Marta Steele on 19 April 2005@22:01:11.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (modified translation, consolidated notes, added cross-references, set status) on 20 April 2005@00:02:00.
David Whitehead (modified note and keywords; cosmetics) on 20 April 2005@02:53:42.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; augmented note) on 20 April 2005@07:43:37.
David Whitehead (further in the same direction) on 20 April 2005@08:39:59.
David Whitehead (reworked and expanded note; more keywords) on 10 March 2011@04:06:19.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 11 July 2012@06:03:18.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note and link) on 25 August 2013@20:31:41.
David Whitehead (coding and other cosmetics) on 10 November 2015@02:58:12.
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