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Headword:
*(ikethri/a
Adler number: iota,265
Translated headword: of a suppliant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The young shoot of the olive.
Aeschines in the
Defence [uses the word].[1] "Of a suppliant" is the name for a branch of olive, wound into a wreath.
Greek Original:*(ikethri/a: o( qallo\s th=s e)lai/as. o( de\ *ai)sxi/nhs e)n th=| *)apologi/a|. i(kethri/a kalei=tai e)lai/as kla/dos, ste/mmati e)stemme/nos.
Note:
[1] This is the form of words also found in Harpokration s.v. (from which the present entry derives), and orthodoxy construes it as Aeschin. 1.104. For an argument that "
Aeschines" is an error for "
Andocides", and the correct reference therefore
Andocides 1.110, see D. Whitehead, "Harpocrationiana",
Eikasmos 8 (1997) 157-64, at 159-60.
Keywords: botany; definition; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 November 2000@10:37:08.
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