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Headword: *phga\s ga/laktos
Adler number: pi,1484
Translated headword: springs of milk
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] a lot of milk. Just as springs of tears [means] many tears.
Greek Original:
*phga\s ga/laktos: polu\ ga/la. w(s phga\s dakru/wn, polla\ da/krua.
Note:
Sophocles, Electra 895 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there. (For 'springs of tears' see Antigone 803.)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 29 February 2004@11:35:44.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link, set status) on 28 June 2004@00:50:38.
David Whitehead (expanded tr) on 28 June 2004@04:34:21.
Catharine Roth (fixed link, added keyword, raised status) on 15 September 2011@19:21:41.
Catharine Roth (supplemented note) on 22 September 2013@01:40:49.
David Whitehead on 2 October 2013@08:36:17.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; expanded note) on 22 June 2016@07:04:29.
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