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Headword: *)epwmado/n
Adler number: epsilon,2837
Translated headword: shoulder-high, on the shoulders
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
One who carries on his shoulders [is carrying] e)pwmado/n.[1] They also say e)pwma/dios ["on the shoulders"].[2]
Greek Original:
*)epwmado/n: o( de\ toi=s w)/mois fe/rwn e)pwmado/n. le/getai kai\ e)pwma/dios.
Notes:
Similar entries in Hesychius (epsilon5581) and the Etymologicum Magnum (368.40); and cf. upsilon 741.
[1] Adverb, used by Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.738 (web address 1) and 4.1770, and by later poets.
[2] Adjective, used by Theocritus, Idylls 29.29 (web address 2: spelled e)pomma/dios in Aeolic dialect) and by later poets.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 December 2007@00:26:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 18 December 2007@03:27:28.
David Whitehead on 24 October 2012@06:51:41.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links) on 25 October 2012@00:50:22.
David Whitehead on 4 February 2016@07:37:19.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 6 February 2016@23:31:44.
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