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Headword:
*la/kisma
Adler number: lambda,56
Translated headword: rent
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] tear.[1]
" [...] they found the chiton bloodstained and rent".[2] Meaning torn.
Greek Original:*la/kisma: sxi/sma. eu(=ron to\n xitw=na h(|magme/non kai\ lelakisme/non. a)nti\ tou= e)sxismeno/n.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun (cf.
lambda 57 for its plural); the quotation cites a closely related verb.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, reckoned to stem from the occurrence of the plural of the headword in
Euripides,
Trojan Women 497.
[2] This phrase comes from
Josephus’ retelling of the story of the patriarch Joseph (from
Genesis 37.31) in
Antiquities of the Jews 2.36; Joseph's brothers tell their father Jacob the story they have concocted after they have sold the boy into slavery (see web address 1). For the patriarch Joseph see
iota 505; for a chiton see
chi 320.
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Keywords: biography; clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 18 June 2006@22:02:36.
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