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Headword:
*prospattaleu/sw
Adler number: pi,2781
Translated headword: I will nail to
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I will affix to.
Aristophanes in
Plutus [writes]: "I will nail [them] to [his forehead] just as to a wild olive."[1] For farmers used to nail offerings, and limbs and skulls, to the wild olive and to other trees for the purpose of averting witchcraft, so that they not dry up.
*prospattaleu/sw: prosph/cw. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: w(/sper koti/nw| prospattaleu/sw. ei)w/qasi ga\r koti/nw| kai\ a)/llois de/ndrois prospattaleu/ein ta\ a)naqh/mata kai\ kwla\s kai\ krani/a pro\s a)potroph\n baskani/as oi( gewrgoi/, pro\s to\ mh\ chranqh=nai au)ta/.
Notes:
The headword (first person singular, future, of the Attic compound verb
prospattaleu/w) is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Plutus [
Wealth] 943, with commentary from the
scholia there.
Translated by: William Hutton on 7 September 2013@04:23:32.
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