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Headword:
*zaplhqe/s
Adler number: zeta,20
Translated headword: very full
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] infinite, boundless. "The dark earth of
Katane buried
Stesichorus, the very full unmeasured mouth of the Muse."[1]
*zaplhqe/s: a)/peiron, a)/metron. *sthsi/xoron zaplhqe\s a)me/trhton sto/ma *mou/shs e)kte/rise *kata/nas ai)qalo/en da/pedon.
Notes:
The headword adjective, neuter singular, is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
The first 24 zeta entries contain numerous other words with this intensifying
za- prefix.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.75.1-2, which reads
a)metrh/tou (i.e. 'very full mouth of the unmeasured Muse' -- 'unmeasured' perhaps referring to
Stesichorus' use of relatively free lyric meters). For
Stesichorus see generally
sigma 1095; for
Katane,
kappa 669.
Translated by: Nicholas Wilshere on 17 October 2004@09:28:46.
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