*prw/ra: to\ e)/mprosqen th=s new/s. kai\ *prw/raqen. kai\ *prwra/tas th=s nho/s: kai\ *prwreu/s.
This entry consists of a collection of remarks on the word for "prow" (spelled both
prw/ra as here and
prw/|ra), and words derived from it.
[1] cf. John
Philoponus,
Commentary on Aristotle's Physics 16.314,
scholia to Aristeides,
Panathenaicus 113.9, and to
Oppian,
Halieutica 192; also
Hesychius pi4150, which Latte connects with commentary on
Acts 27:41 and/or
Aeschylus,
Seven against Thebes 208 (where forms of the headword appear), though the reason for singling out these citations is unclear.
[2] A single word in the Greek, untranslatable as such into English, combining the headword with the ablative suffix
-qen. Evidently quoted from somewhere; the possibilities include
Pindar and
Thucydides.
[3] Adler's typography here shows that she confined this supplementary lemma to the single word 'prow-men'. However, that all three words make up a quotation here (source unidentifiable), is indicated by use of the epic dialect form
nho/s ('of the ship'); contrast the Attic/Koine form
new/s in the first sentence of the entry. Here the lemma
appears to be a noun in the accusative plural from the stem of the headword with the agentive suffix
-ths. This form of the noun is otherwise attested only at
epsilon 2518, where it occurs in what has been identified as a fragment of Arrian's
Parthica, fr. 59.5 Roos-Wirth (= FGrH 156 F146), but the presence of the poetic form
nho/s guarantees that we are dealing with a different source. It is also possible that the word here is a nominative singular form of the word in Doric dialect (perhaps extracted from a lost tragic chorus or the like).
[4] Adler's presentation of this fourth term is ambiguous. Is it a gloss for 'prow-men' (as suggested by the colon between the two phrases) or is it a separate lemma (as suggested by the capitalization of 'prow-officer'? If the former, then it might incline one to the option that
prwra/tas in the preceding phrase is a singular Doric nominative (see previous note), since this word is definitely nominative singular. In any event
prwreu/s is a more common word than
prwra/ths for an officer in charge of the prow of a ship, and is also formed from the stem of the primary headword with an agentive suffix (this time
-eus). On these two terms Adler compares
Lexicon Ambrosianum 1133 and 1122 respectively.
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