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Headword:
*mauli/as
Adler number: mu,293
Translated headword: knives
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They used to call machairai this [i.e. mauliai], because of being encamped together (homou aulizesthai), as [if to say] homaulias.[1]
Greek Original:*mauli/as: ta\s maxai/ras e)ka/loun dia\ to\ o(mou= au)li/zesqai, oi(=on o(mauli/as.
Notes:
The headword, here is the accusative plural, is normally
mau=lis, -idos, as used in
Callimachus and
Nicander.
The gloss is cited from the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.6.1 (web address 1), as a Just-So reference to the early Hellenes wearing knives in their daily life. On the
machaira, see
mu 302.
[1] cf.
o(/maulos at
omicron 227.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history; poetry
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 26 April 2009@05:48:27.
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