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Headword:
*)ephmoiboi/
Adler number: epsilon,2182
Translated headword: alternating, crossing, shifting to and fro
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] interchanged, so that the one is drawn on one side, the other on the other.
Greek Original:*)ephmoiboi/: e)phllagme/noi, w(/ste to\n me\n e)/nqen, to\n de\ e)/nqen e)fe/lkesqai.
Note:
Same or similar entry in other lexica. The headword is nominative plural of the adjective
e)phmoibo/s. It must be quoted from somewhere -- probably
Homer,
Iliad 12.455-6 (web address 1), where, in application to the pair of bars which fasten the gate in the Greeks' wall, it can (see LSJ s.v.) bear the meaning glossed here.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 2 August 2007@04:56:41.
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