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Headword:
*qaleroi/
Adler number: theta,15
Translated headword: sturdy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] moist(?), young, in their prime, or swift.[1]
"Those who had been picked out incited the sturdy of the Isaurians into an irrational/surprising act".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "of bright-eyed dawn", [meaning] of a beautiful day.[3]
Greek Original:*qaleroi/: di/u+groi, ne/oi, a)kmai=oi, h)\ taxei=s. oi( de\ e)pileca/menoi tou\s qalerou\s tw=n *)isau/rwn w(/rmhsan e)pi\ para/logon pra=cin. kai\ *qalerw/pidos h)rigenei/hs, th=s eu)prosw/pou h(me/ras.
Notes:
[1] The headword is masculine nominative plural of this adjective. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 3.26 (where it occurs, in a simile, of huntsmen: web address 1).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (For the Isaurians see
iota 616.)
[3]
Greek Anthology 7.204.3 (
Agathias Scholasticus); cf.
alphaiota 159,
eta 513. See further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 2985 and
mu 715.
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Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 April 2008@09:08:37.
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