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Headword:
*ka/rfh
Adler number: kappa,439
Translated headword: hay
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the dry and light grass.[1]
"They filled the skins they had for tent-covers with hay. Then they gathered the skins and sewed them together, so that the water would not touch the hay."[2]
[This form] is used in the feminine.
Arrian [writes]: "and the skin [tents] being filled with hay and the entire bank appearing to be full of [troops] did not let Poros rest."[3]
And a neuter [form] is also used, to\ ka/rfos, [dative] tw=| ka/rfei.[4]
Greek Original:*ka/rfh: o( chro\s kai\ kou=fos xo/rtos. difqe/ras ei)=xon skepa/smata e)pi/mplasan xo/rtou kou/fou. ei)=ta sunh=gon kai\ sune/spwn ta\s difqe/ras, w(s mh\ a(/ptesqai th=s ka/rfhs to\ u(/dwr. le/getai de\ qhlukw=s. *)arriano/s: kai\ ai( difqe/rai th=s ka/rfhs e)mpipla/menai kai\ h( o)/xqh pa=sa plh/rhs fainome/nh ou)k ei)/a h)remei=n to\n *po/ron. le/getai kai\ ou)dete/rws to\ ka/rfos, tw=| ka/rfei.
Notes:
[1] cf.
Hesychius kappa932.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.5.10 (web address 1 below), which reads
difqe/ras a(\s ei)=xon ("the skins which they had").
[3] Arrian,
Anabasis 5.9.3.
[4] cf.
Hesychius kappa935.
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Translated by: Ryan Stone on 19 March 2008@18:46:49.
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