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Headword:
*gwruto/s
Adler number: gamma,415
Translated headword: quiver
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] case of [= for] arrows.[1]
"And fastened to a quiver three or more javelins, broad at the tips and no less than spears in size."[2]
And elsewhere: "[...] and quivers full of arrows."[3]
Greek Original:*gwruto/s: qh/kh to/cwn. kai\ kata\ gwrutou= parhrthme/nai trei=s h)\ plei/ous a)/kontes, platei=s me\n ai)xma/s, ou)k a)pode/ontes de\ dora/twn me/geqos. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ gwrutou\s plh/reis o)i+stw=n.
Notes:
cf.
alpha 4293.
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 21.54, where the headword noun occurs (web address 1).
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.96, describing the equipment of the Roman cavalry. Since there is no mention of their being armed as archers, the term quiver is evidently used loosely here.
[3] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; historiography; history; military affairs; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 28 June 2003@05:03:06.
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