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Search results for epsilon,3212 in Adler number:
Headword:
*(esti/a
Adler number: epsilon,3212
Translated headword: hearth, Hestia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] dwelling, housing, altar, pot-stand, fireplace.[1]
"They portray Hestia -- that is, the earth -- as a woman holding a drum; since the earth gathers the winds under herself."[2]
Greek Original:*(esti/a: di/aita, oi)/khsis, bwmo/s, xutro/pous, e)sxa/ra. gunai=ka pla/ttousi th\n e(sti/an, oi(onei\ th\n gh=n, tu/mpanon basta/zousan: e)peidh\ tou\s a)ne/mous h( gh= u(f' e(auth\n sugklei/ei.
Notes:
[1] =
Synagoge epsilon871;
Photius,
Lexicon epsilon2025.
[2] This quotation -- absent (Adler reports) from mss AFV -- is drawn from
gamma 257 (q.v. for references).
Translated by: William Hutton on 25 January 2008@11:09:20.
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