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Headword:
*)epi\
ka/r
Adler number: epsilon,2353
Translated headword: head-first, head-foremost
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] onto the lower [parts], onto the head. "Out of [the] mountains head-first." As if [to say from above] onto the downward [parts].
Greek Original:*)epi\ ka/r: e)pi\ ta\ ka/tw, e)pi\ kefalh/n. e)c o)re/wn e)pi\ ka/r. oi(=on e)pi\ ta\ katwferh=.
Note:
The headword phrase should perhaps be written as one word. Compare in any event Apollonius,
Homeric Lexicon 73.19;
Hesychius epsilon4828;
Etymologicum Magnum 360.8; and a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 16.392, where the quotation given, including the headword, occurs in a simile about a storm (web address 1).
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 October 2007@00:29:21.
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