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Headword: *seli/nou ste/fanos
Adler number: sigma,212
Translated headword: a crown of celery
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

One of mourning; for celery is appropriate to grief; so says Douris in his [treatise] On Contests.[1]

Greek Original:

*seli/nou ste/fanos: pe/nqimos: to\ ga\r se/linon pe/nqesi prosh/kei: w(s e)/fh kai\ *dou=ris e)n tw=| *peri\ a)gw/nwn.

Notes:

cf. Apostolius 15.37, and generally sigma 207, sigma 211 (and tau 832).
[1] D(o)uris of Samos, FGrH 76 F33.

Keywords: athletics; botany; daily life; ethics; historiography; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 31 October 2001@05:48:56.
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