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Headword:
*(uyhxh/s
Adler number: upsilon,751
Translated headword: high-sounding
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one carrying the neck high. Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "high-sounding horses".
Greek Original:*(uyhxh/s: o( u(yau/xhn. kai/, u(yhxe/es i(/ppoi.
Notes:
The phrase quoted comes from
Homer,
Iliad 5.772 (web address 1). However, despite the
scholia there (and other lexica), the actual sense and import of the headword adjective
u(yhxh/s is unclear: see LSJ s.v.
For the glossing word
u(yau/xhn applied to a horse, cf.
Plato,
Phaedrus 253D.
cf. under
upsilon 744.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; philosophy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 23 August 2010@06:31:13.
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