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Headword:
*steileio/s
Adler number: sigma,1079
Translated headword: shaft, handle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the wood[-en part] of the axe.[1]
"For what strength did your steel have, if a shaft had not been fitted to it?"[2]
Greek Original:*steileio/s: to\ th=s a)ci/nhs cu/lon. ti/ ga\r sqe/nos e)/ske sidh/rw| u(mei/wn, ei) mh/ oi( e)ni\ steileio\n a)rh/rei;
Notes:
[1] Epic form of
steleo/n (
sigma 1029); see
Homer,
Odyssey 5.236 at web address 1.
[2] Fragment of a dactylic fable, in appendix to Crusius' edition of
Babrius, p. 218; cf.
sigma 1030.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2001@18:01:13.
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