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Headword: *sighlo/s
Adler number: sigma,368
Translated headword: silent
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] voiceless, sighro/s.[1]
"There was a silence deeper than any desolation."[2]
Greek Original:
*sighlo/s: a)/fwnos, sighro/s. sigh\ de\ h)=n baqute/ra pa/shs e)rhmi/as.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly (first gloss only) in other lexica; references at Photius sigma194 Theodoridis. The second gloss is simply a (less Attic) variant of the headword sighlo/s.
[2] Quotation -- featuring a noun related to the headword -- variously attributed to Iamblichus (Babyloniaca fr. 126 Habrich) and Arrian (Ab excessu Alexandri fr. 9).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 December 2013@04:34:39.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweak, coding, status) on 23 December 2013@11:40:24.
Catharine Roth (modified my tweak) on 23 December 2013@11:42:46.
David Whitehead (expanded notes) on 24 December 2013@03:19:11.
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