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Headword:
*)ekmagei=on
Adler number: epsilon,491
Translated headword: block, lump, mould
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] an impression, and a seal-impression.[1]
"[The more authoritative writings] were handed over bound and secured with blocks of wax and the impressions of signet-rings."[2]
Greek Original:*)ekmagei=on: e)ktu/pwma, kai\ a)posfra/gisma. cuneilhqe/nta te kai\ katasfalisqe/nta e)kmagei/ois khri/nois kai\ e)ktupw/masi daktuli/wn e)pedo/qh.
Notes:
cf. generally
kappa 1535,
phi 674.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] An approximation of
Menander Protector fr. 6.1 Blockley (76-77), as preserved in Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus,
De legationibus 182.33-183.1. This part of the fragment concerns the handling of the documentation for the Fifty Year Peace between the Roman and Persian empires (561-562).
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
Keywords: art history; daily life; definition; historiography; history; science and technology
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 31 August 2004@20:17:28.
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