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Headword:
*eu)di/aios
Adler number: epsilon,3415
Translated headword: bilge-hole
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a drain/gutter,[1] and a ship's hole, through which the bilge-water flows out.[2]
Greek Original:*eu)di/aios: xeima/rrous, kai\ trh=ma th=s new/s, di' ou(= h( a)ntli/a e)krei=.
Notes:
For the range of meanings of the headword
eu)di/aios (including scatological and obscene ones) see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] cf. for this Hesiod,
Works and Days 626 (
xei/maron, bilge-plug), and more generally
Demosthenes 55.19 (the drains/gutters of domestic houses). See also
psi 107.
[2] Besides the preceding note, see similar entries in
Photius and
Hesychius;
alpha 2750,
alpha 2751; and L. Casson,
Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World (Baltimore 1995) 175-6.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 January 2008@05:34:21.
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