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Headword:
*sth/lh
Adler number: sigma,1083
Translated headword: pillars, stelai
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] foundations.[1]
A pillar [is] also a stone, a turning-post.
Sophocles [writes]: "That man, keeping up against the very pillar at the end [...]."[2]
A pillar is not placed upon tombs alone, but is also erected for victors, and it provides space for inscriptions.[3]
*sth/las: qemeli/ous. *sth/lh kai\ o( li/qos, o( kampth/r. *sofoklh=s: kei=nos d' u(p' au)th\n e)sxa/thn sth/lhn e)/xwn. *sth/lh de\ ou) ta/fois e)piti/qetai mo/nois, a)lla\ kai\ nikw=sin a)ni/statai, kai\ e)pigra/mmata e)pide/xetai.
Notes:
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Synagoge sigma222;
Photius,
Lexicon sigma547 Theodoridis. From commentary to
Homer,
Iliad 12.259, where the headword occurs in this form (accusative plural) in reference to pillars that support the structure of defensive towers; cf.
scholia ad loc., and
Hesychius sigma1812. For related words see
sigma 1084 through
sigma 1087.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 720 (where the headword appears in the accusative singular), with comments from the
scholia thereto. The same passage is also quoted at
sigma 1664. For the initial gloss cf.
Hesychius sigma1812,
Etymologicum Gudianum 511, and
kappa 2744.
[3] Derived from Theodoret,
Commentary on the Psalms PG 80.957, interpreting the title of
Psalm 15
LXX (
*sthlografi/a tou= *daui/d).
Translated by: William Hutton on 5 April 2014@12:07:37.
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