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Headword:
*)/htrion
Adler number: eta,634
Translated headword: warp, fine cloth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a diaphanous garment.[1]
"The variegated cloth lifted on high turns in all directions."[2] He is saying [this] about the dragon-shaped banner, the one [used] in war.
But [sc. differently accented] h)tri/on [means something] invulnerable.[3]
Greek Original:*)/htrion: e)/nduma u(menw=des. metewri/zon to\ poiki/lon h)/trion pa/sas e(li/ssei tropa/s. le/gei peri\ tou= drakontoeidou=s shmei/ou tou= e)n pole/mw|. *)htri/on de\ to\ a)/trwton.
Notes:
[1] cf. scholion on
Plato,
Politicus 310E, as well as other lexica.
[2] Quotation (again, in fuller context, at
iota 374 and
chi 306) unidentifiable.
[3] Also in other lexica.
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; military affairs; philosophy; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 November 2006@01:11:06.
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