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Headword:
*pu/lh
i(pph/latos
Adler number: pi,3169
Translated headword: equestrian gate
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning the one] through which they had come in.[1]
Homer calls clouds 'heaven's gates'.[2]
Greek Original:*pu/lh i(pph/latos: di' h(=s ei)selhlu/qeisan. *pu/las ou)ranou= *(/omhros ta\ ne/fh le/gei.
Notes:
LSJ s.v.
i(pph/latos lists several phrases which include this adjective, but not the present one. It is in fact attested (but with the word-order reversed) in the comments of grammarians and scholiasts on
Homer,
Iliad 8.58, where 'all the gates [sc. of
Troy] were opened' (web address 1). However, the Suda's gloss -- see next note -- is unparalleled.
[1] The pluperfect tense of this gloss is striking; a specific episode?
[2] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 5.749 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: architecture; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 February 2010@04:57:04.
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