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Headword:
*)ema/lqacan
Adler number: epsilon,926
Translated headword: they softened
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "In the steep and slippery spot they stuck wooden stakes into the slope, and stabilized them in the middle with others going crosswise, and put hurdles of wood[1] on top; [thus] they softened the part that was too steep and slippery."[2] That is, they made [it] gentle, they levelled [it].[3]
Greek Original:*)ema/lqacan: e)n de\ tw=| pranei= kai\ o)lisqhrw=| to/pw| cu/la staurou=ntes th=| kataba/sei, kai\ to\ me/son a)/llois e)gkarsi/ois sterifopoiou=ntes kai\ formou\s e)pibalo/ntes u(/lhs, e)ma/lqacan to\ pa/nu prane/s te kai\ o)lisqhro/n. toute/sti katepra/u+nan, kaqwma/lisan.
Notes:
The headword is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Or perhaps "baskets of material".
[2] This (unidentifiable) quotation is repeated in a slightly altered form at
pi 445. The Dutch scholar
Tiberius Hemsterhuys (1685-1766) proposed conjoining it with another unattributable quotation found in
pi 2209. See also
sigma 1049.
[3] Adler cites
Lexica Segueriana 295.6 as a parallel, where "made gentle" (
katapra/u+nan) is used as one of the glosses for the aorist infinitive form of the verb found here as the headword (
malqa/cai: an entry that is reprised in the Suda at
mu 109).
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 February 2007@05:31:53.
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