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Headword:
*kro/ssas
Adler number: kappa,2473
Translated headword: steps
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] ladders.[1]
In the commentaries he explains it as the tops of battlements, that is to say crenellations; but in his observations on an anchorage [he explains it as] ladders.[2]
Greek Original:*kro/ssas: klimaki/das. e)n me\n toi=s u(pomnh/masin a)podi/dwsi ta\s tw=n e)pa/lcewn stefa/nas, oi(onei\ kefali/das, e)n de\ toi=s peri\ nausta/qmou kli/makas.
Notes:
[1] The headword is accusative case of the noun (always found in the plural: see LSJ s.v.)
kro/ssai. From
Homer: see next note. Same or similar entry in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa1110 Theodoridis, and next note.
[2] Ultimately from commentary -- in which 'he' is probably Aristonicus -- on
Homer,
Iliad 12.258 (web address 1); cf.
scholia ad loc., and cf.
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 14.35. Compare also Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon (104.14);
Hesychius kappa4199;
Etymologicum Magnum 540.40.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 16 February 2009@15:22:07.
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