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Headword: *pukteu/ein
Adler number: pi,3156
Translated headword: to box, to spar
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A kind of gymnasium and of wrestling-school.
Greek Original:
*pukteu/ein: ei)=dos gumnasi/ou kai\ palai/stras.
Note:
Same (odd) entry in Photius and the Lexica Segueriana. Something evidently went wrong early in the lexicographical tradition; perhaps there was an appropriate gloss for the infinitive followed by another headword puktei=on (cf. pi 3157) with the present gloss.
Keywords: athletics; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 16 April 2010@06:04:47.
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Catharine Roth (tweak, expanded note, set status) on 18 April 2010@02:20:19.
David Whitehead (typo) on 18 April 2010@05:34:03.
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