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Headword: *quwro/s
Adler number: theta,597
Translated headword: offering-board
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Strictly speaking [this means] the sacred table.[1]
Pherekydes used to say that the gods call the table an offering-board.[2]
Greek Original:
*quwro/s: kuri/ws h( i(era\ tra/peza. e)/lege *fereku/dhs, o(/ti oi( qeoi\ th\n tra/pezan quwro\n kalou=sin.
Notes:
[1] i.e. an altar. Broadly similar glossing in Hesychius theta988 and other lexica, and in (e.g.) the scholia to Callimachus, Hymns 3.134.
[2] Diogenes Laertius 1.119; cf. phi 214 for Pherekydes.
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Translated by: William Hutton on 21 February 2008@20:50:15.
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