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Headword:
*sku/tos
Adler number: sigma,726
Translated headword: leather
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] any [sc. kind of] skin. From which also [comes] the [noun] skuteu/s ["leather-man"].[1]
"And he drives the spear into the head, yet he does not split [it] open, as the spear-point slides off round the leather."[2]
Greek Original:*sku/tos: pa=n de/rma. a)f' ou(= kai\ skuteu/s. o( de\ ei)s to\ kra/nos fe/rei to\ do/ru, ou) me/ntoi diei=le/ ge, periolisqou/shs th=s ai)xmh=s peri\ to\ sku/tos.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon, and a scholion to
Homer,
Odyssey 14.34. Here "leather" means leather helmet. For "leather-man" see also the first gloss at
sigma 727.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the
Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Translated by: Abram Ring on 19 April 2014@01:30:43.
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