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Headword:
*tetra/s
Adler number: tau,404
Translated headword: four, tetrad
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [*tetra/s, genitive] tetra/dos.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] te/trasi kairoi=s ["in four seasons"].[2]
Greek Original:*tetra/s, tetra/dos. kai/, te/trasi kairoi=s.
Notes:
[1] cf. under
tau 394 and
tau 403. For the genitive, cf. under
epsiloniota 29.
[2] This phrase in the dative plural is attested in two texts not much (if at all) earlier than the Suda. However, it may well be an established quotation. (It seems to be the last two feet of a line of hexameter verse.)
Keywords: chronology; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mathematics; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 6 April 2010@01:22:55.
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