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Headword: *tetrarai=a
Adler number: tau,402
Translated headword: tetraraia
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*tetrarai=a.
Notes:
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.
Keywords: athletics; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; military affairs; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 April 2010@01:41:01.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords) on 6 April 2010@03:38:50.
Catharine Roth (added note, with information found by Nick Nicholas) on 6 April 2010@22:28:20.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 7 April 2010@22:06:57.
David Whitehead on 9 January 2014@06:13:57.
David Whitehead (coding) on 27 May 2016@11:39:57.

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