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Headword: Ἄγκεσι
Adler number: alpha,245
Translated headword: forests
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Tree-filled and wooded places.[1]
In the Epigrams: "with this he slays wild beasts in beast-breeding forests".[2]
Greek Original:
Ἄγκεσι: συνδένδροις καὶ ὑλώδεσι τόποις. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: θηροβολεῖ τούτῳ δ' ἄγκεσι θηροτόκοις.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is dative plural of alpha 248.
[1] For this glossing cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.321, where ἄγκε' occurs.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.186.4.
Keywords: botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Nathan Greenberg on 24 November 1998@14:04:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added headword, notes, keywords; cosmetics) on 12 February 2001@04:42:05.
Catharine Roth (Added cross-reference.) on 4 March 2001@22:35:12.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 4 January 2012@05:13:03.

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