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Headword:
*kotulh/ruton
Adler number: kappa,2169
Translated headword: copious, flowing by the cupful, flowing by the handful
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] much, so that it can be drawn [a)ru/esqai] in a cup/handful [kotu/lh|],[1] i.e. in something hollow.[2]
Greek Original:*kotulh/ruton: polu/, w(/ste kotu/lh| a)ru/esqai, o(/ e)sti koi/lw| tini/.
Notes:
[1] The headword adjective occurs in
Homer,
Iliad 23.34, referring to flowing blood. The definition appears in Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon (cf. Aristonicus,
De signis Iliadis, and
Hesychius kappa3817); see also LSJ.
[2] Paraphrased from the Homeric
scholia: "a
kotu/lh is anything hollow, so they would also call the hollow of the hand a
kotu/lh". On the
kotu/lh cf.
kappa 2166.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 10 February 2009@06:49:16.
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