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Headword:
*mu/lh
Adler number: mu,1408
Translated headword: mill, bottom millstone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the lower millstone;[1] for the upper one is called a donkey.[2]
Procopius [writes]: "and when the aqueducts of the Roman territory had been taken apart, the water no longer powered the bottom millstones."[3]
*mu/lh: to\ ka/tw tou= mu/lou: o( ga\r a)/nw o)/nos le/getai. *proko/pios: tw=n de\ o)xetw=n gh=s *(rwmai/wn diaireqe/ntwn, ou)ke/ti to\ u(/dwr ta\s mu/las e)nh/rgei.
Notes:
[1] LSJ s.v.
mu/lh, h( II "nether millstone".
[2] LSJ s.v.
o)/nos, o( VII.2 "the upper millstone" cf.
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.5.5.
[3]
Procopius,
History of the Wars of Justinian 5.19.19 (web address 1), with minor omissions. This concerns the Goths' attack on Rome and Belisarius' [
beta 233] defense; cf. Kaldellis (297). For
Procopius, see generally
pi 2479.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and H.B. Dewing, trans., Prokopios: The Wars of Justinian, (Indianapolis 2014)
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Translated by: Abram Ring on 5 May 2009@15:05:48.
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