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Headword:
*pe/mpelos
Adler number: pi,958
Translated headword: aged
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Referring to] an old man. Also an old woman. [sc. The term pempelos comes] from being sent [pempesthai] into the underworld.
Greek Original:*pe/mpelos: ge/rwn. kai\ grau=s. para\ to\ pe/mpesqai ei)s to\n a(/|dhn.
Notes:
cf. the
scholia to
Lycophron,
Alexandra 826, where this word occurs (of an old woman).
Hesychius s.v.
pe/mpelon has other lines of explanation.
See also under
tau 1157.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 4 March 2010@08:47:55.
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