*tetrarai=a.
An impenetrable headword, otherwise unattested in this form (apparently a neuter nominative plural, if the accent is correct). Manuscript A, which places this entry before
tau 401, reads
tetranai/a, but a later hand corrected n to r. Bernhardy suggested
tetraori/a, "four-horse chariot" (in
Pindar and elsewhere).
In Theodore Prodromus,
Carmina Historica, 51 (title),
tetrarai/as (genitive singular) seems to be a mistake for
tetartai/as "quartan fever." In Constantine Porphyrogenitus,
De Cerimoniis,
tetrarai/wn appears to refer to some kind of military equipment. E.A.
Sophocles'
Lexicon has an entry
tetrare/a "apparently a mistake for
petrare/a =
petrari/a"; and this last means a stone-throwing catapult.
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