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Headword:
*mw=los
Adler number: mu,1324
Translated headword: moil [of war], struggle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] long-lasting battle;[1] from the [phrase] mh\ lu/esqai ["not to be resolved"];[2] or from the [verb] molei=n ["to go"].[3] For in it one must hurry.
It means also a name of a city.[4]
Greek Original:*mw=los: h( poluxro/nios ma/xh: para\ to\ mh\ lu/esqai: h)\ para\ to\ molei=n. dei= ga\r e)n au)tw=| speu/dein. shmai/nei de\ kai\ o)/noma po/lews.
Notes:
Similar glosses in other lexica; see also
mu 1323.
[1] cf. Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon 114.19 (the source for
Hesychius mu2035).
[2] Ms F reads
molu/esqai; G has
molu/nesqai for which cf.
mu 1323.
[3] For the verb
molei=n, see
mu 1192,
mu 1202.
[4] Adler reports the same claim in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (1075); and note also ps.-
Zonaras,
*Mw=los and
*Mw=la as 'names of cities'. But neither is otherwise attested, even in the usually comprehensive
Stephanus of
Byzantium.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; military affairs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 August 2009@01:15:07.
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