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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.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks; x-refs) on 6 April 2010@03:31:08.
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; more keywords) on 14 August 2011@04:47:15.
David Whitehead on 9 January 2014@07:15:33.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 16 July 2022@17:26:26.

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