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Headword: *staqmw=n
Adler number: sigma,996
Translated headword: of pillars
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] of the posts of the door.
Greek Original:
*staqmw=n: tw=n parasta/dwn th=s qu/ras.
Notes:
= Synagoge sigma191, Photius sigma494 (where Theodoridis gives copious references and declares the headword quoted from Exodus 12.7 LXX); cf. e.g. Hesychius sigma1610, Pollux 1.76, Etymologicum Magnum 724.46-7.
The headword, here in the genitive plural, is capable of referring to a wide range of things that are either literally or figuratively "standing", and in the context of buildings it is often difficult to tell whether the term is referring to doorposts or to other parts of the building that stand (such as pillars) or, synecdochally, to the building itself. Unambiguous cases where this form of the word is used in this sense include Exodus 12:7 (as above) and 12:23 LXX; also Eumelus fr. 12.2 Bernabé. A more common focus of commentary (for the Suda at least) is Aristophanes, who uses this form at Acharnians 449, where the connotation 'building' is more probable. But scholia to other passages where the word occurs in different cases and numbers offer similar glosses, or include a similar gloss to illustrate different/alternative meanings of the words; eg. scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.470, 14.167, Odyssey 1.333, 4.838, 7.89; and to Euripides, Orestes 1449.
Keywords: architecture; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; poetry; religion; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 21 March 2014@15:19:03.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 21 March 2014@22:38:59.
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; tweaking; raised status) on 23 March 2014@06:12:45.
William Hutton (tweaked note) on 23 March 2014@10:59:14.
David Whitehead (coding) on 26 May 2016@07:21:28.

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