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Headword:
*na/pos
Adler number: nu,33
Translated headword: glen, gulley
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
na/pos is] neuter and [sc. also attested is the] feminine,
na/ph:[1] [Meaning] a mountainous wooded place.[2]
As if
na/fh, not having light [
fw=s] because of a thicket.
Xenophon has the word
na/pos in the neuter, [meaning] a gulley. "[...] when the leaders came to a gulley hard-to-cross and large, they halted there, not knowing whether the gulley was to be crossed."[3]
*na/pos ou)de/teron kai\ qhluko\n h( *na/ph: o)reino\s u(lw/dhs to/pos. oi(onei\ na/fh w(s mh\ fw=s e)/xousa dia\ da/sos. *cenofw=n ou)dete/rws le/gei to\ na/pos, to\ e)/dafos. e)pei\ oi( h(gou/menoi e)ge/nonto e)pi\ na/pei dusba/tw| kai\ mega/lw|, e)/sthsan a)gnoou=ntes, ei) diabate/on ei)/h to\ na/pos.
Notes:
[1] cf. under
nu 21.
[2] The feminine
na/ph is likewise or similarly glossed in other lexica: see the references at
Photius nu27 Theodoridis.
[3] An approximation of
Xenophon,
Anabasis 6.5.12 (web address 1).
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 7 September 2008@09:24:27.
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