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Headword:
*stegano/n
Adler number: sigma,1021
Translated headword: confining, enclosing, closely-covered; surly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dense, tightly-bound.[1]
And
Diodorus [writes]: "but the Romans made closely-covered [huts] and wintered [there]."[2]
And [there is] a proverb: "in a Bacchant's manner." [Said] in reference to those who are surly and silent; inasmuch as the Bacchants kept silence.[3]
*stegano/n: pukno/n, sfigkto/n. kai\ *dio/dwros: oi( de\ *(rwmai=oi stegana\ poih/santes parexei/mazon. kai\ paroimi/a: *ba/kxhs tro/pon. e)pi\ tw=n steganw=n kai\ siwphlw=n: ai( ga\r *ba/kxai e)si/gwn.
Notes:
cf.
sigma 1020,
sigma 1022,
sigma 1023.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica. The headword is either masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; neuter if, as it seems, it is extracted from
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 358 (a net); cf. the
scholia there.
[2]
Diodorus Siculus fr. 9 Walton (33 Dindorf).
[3] cf.
Diogenianus 3.43 and other paroemiographers; mentioned already at
beta 56.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 May 2012@00:47:52.
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