*pu/c: pugmh/n, gro/nqon. o( de\ pu\c pai/ei au)to\n kata\ tw=n prosw/pwn. oi( de\ *fra/gkoi, i(/na e)skhnhme/noi e)tu/gxanon, pu/c te kai\ e)pi\ polu\ bo/qrous o)ru/cantes tau/th| a)sfale/stata e)/menon.
[1] The headword, a single word in the Greek, is an epic/poetic adverb (later adopted in other genres). The glossing consists of two alternative nouns meaning "fist" that are scarcely distinguishable from one another in English translation. The first,
pugmh/, occurs more frequently in classical literature, while
gro/nqos is a more demotic usage (cf.
pi 3113), here rendered as "mitt". Both glosses are in the accusative singular (accusatives of respect if, as seems highly likely, the headword itself is quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 3.237 where Polydeuces (
Pollux) is described as
pu\c a)gaqo/n; cf. the
scholia there). The corresponding entry in the
Synagoge, pi797 Cunningham, has only the second gloss,
gro/nqon; likewise
Photius,
Lexicon pi1540 Theodoridis.
Hesychius pi4373 presents the same two glosses in the nominative case.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantiniana) unidentifiable. The same text is also quoted in an interpolated passage in
Eustathius'
Commentaries on Homer's Iliad 7.212 (van der Valk II 444.18). Here the plural
pro/swpa refers, as it frequently does, to a single face; see LSJ s.v.
[3] Again, an unidentifiable quotation (from late-antique historiography) probably transmitted via the
Excerpta. See
tau 134 for a similar subject. (For the Franks, see generally
phi 682.)
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