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Headword: *(hliotro/pion
Adler number: eta,241
Translated headword: sundial
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning a] clock.[1]
A gnomon is what is fixed in sun-dials; [it is] what Anaximander invented and set up on the shadow-clocks.[2]
Greek Original:
*(hliotro/pion: w(rologei=on. o(/ti gnw/mwn e)sti\ to\ e)n toi=s h(liotropi/ois phgnu/menon, o(/per e)feu=ren *)anaci/mandros kai\ e)/sthsen e)pi\ tw=n skioqh/rwn.
Notes:
[1] In e.g. Athenaeus, Plutarch, and a scholion on Aristophanes, Birds 998. See also sigma 613, omega 199.
[2] From gamma 346.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 July 2006@22:42:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 24 July 2006@05:03:04.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 14 December 2012@03:13:25.
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