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Headword:
*ko/nnous
Adler number: kappa,2047
Translated headword: trinkets
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Everyone was presented with suitable gifts, trinkets and armlets for the boys,[1]
drambai[2] and knives for the young men."
Polybius says [this].
*ko/nnous: e)dwrei=to de\ pa=si ta\ pre/ponta, toi=s me\n paisi\ ko/nnous kai\ ye/llia, toi=s de\ neani/skois dramba\s kai\ maxai/ras. *polu/bio/s fhsi.
Notes:
The headword, evidently extracted from the quotation carelessly given (
Polybius 10.18.6, web address 1), is accusative plural of the noun
ko/nnos (in
Polybius ko/nos).
[1] (Carthaginian)
girls in
Polybius.
[2] A word otherwise unattested; and the mss of
Polybius have
r(amfa/s, "bills, hooked knives."
Web address 1
Keywords: children; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 March 2009@23:59:43.
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