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Headword:
*li/qwn
poti/mwn
Adler number: lambda,528
Translated headword: of drinking stones, of porous stones
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Perhaps he[1] is speaking of poroi, which become stronger by drinking the water; alternatively, of [stones] which consume the flesh of the bodies placed on them.[2]
Greek Original:*li/qwn poti/mwn: mh/pote tw=n pw/rwn le/gei, oi(\ pi/nontes to\ u(/dwr i)sxuro/teroi gi/nontai: h)\ tw=n th\n sa/rka tw=n e)ntiqeme/nwn katanalisko/ntwn swma/twn.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius lambda306 Theodoridis.
[1]
Plato,
Laws 12.947D (on the construction of a tomb for a Scrutineer), where in fact the reading is in doubt:
poti/mwn, as here (and in
Photius), or
proti/mwn ("superior, choice"). See web address 1.
[2] As already indicated in the headword, the obvious translation of
li/qwn poti/mwn -- taking that to be the correct reading -- is "of porous stones". But
pw=ros (
pi 2181), mentioned here, was in fact a broadbrush term for ordinary, locally-available stones, usually limestone. See generally R.E. Wycherley,
The Stones of Athens (Princeton 1978) 270-2.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: food; imagery; law; philosophy; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: David Whitehead on 9 September 2001@05:34:10.
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