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Headword:
*di/dumoi
Adler number: delta,878
Translated headword: twins
Vetting Status: high
Translation: We customarily [use this word to mean] those who are born together; in a special sense [it is used to mean] single individuals.[1] Or [for things which occur] doubly, as "with twin pipes."[2]
Greek Original:*di/dumoi: sunh/qws h(mi=n kai\ oi( sumfuei=s, i)di/ws oi( mo/noi: h)\ dissw=s: kai/, au)loi=si didu/mois.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[1]
Aristarchus, reported by a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 23.638 (web address 1). Less than self-explanatory here in the Suda,
Aristarchus' contention was that in this instance the headword did not mean a pair of twins such as the Dioskouroi (
delta 1209) but
difuei=s, men with two bodies.
[2]
Homer,
Odyssey 19.227, on the pins of a brooch (web address 2). For another impersonal application see
delta 870.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: clothing; daily life; definition; epic; meter and music; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 May 2004@18:35:18.
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