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Headword:
*mu/lakes
Adler number: mu,1402
Translated headword: millstones
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] stones for milling.[1]
The singular [is] mu/lac.
"The king/emperor had a golden mill, from which he used to be fed."[2]
Greek Original:*mu/lakes: mulw/deis li/qoi. h( eu)qei=a *mu/lac. mu/lhn de\ xrush=n ei)=xen o( basileu/s, a)f' h(=s e)sitei=to.
Notes:
[1] (Or: like millstones; in the Greek the terminology in this area overlaps more than can readily be conveyed in translation.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica (see the references at
Photius mu590 Theodoridis), and cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 12.161 (where
mula/kessi occurs).
[2] Quotation (and individual) unidentifiable; cf. generally
mu 1408.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 July 2009@07:16:52.
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