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Headword:
Ἀβλῆτα
Adler number: alpha,57
Translated headword: unshot, unthrown
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Missiles, that have not been dispatched so as to cause injury.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'unshot arrow': the one badly shot or the one not yet shot. Declines ἀβλὴς , [genitive] ἀβλῆτος .[2]
Greek Original:Ἀβλῆτα: βέλη, τὰ μὴ πεμφθέντα εἰς τρῶσιν. καὶ ἀβλῆτα ὀϊστὸν, τὸν κακόβλητον ἢ τὸν μήπω βεβλημένον. κλίνεται δὲ ἀβλὴς, ἀβλῆτος.
Notes:
[1] Here the headword adjective is glossed as if it were a neuter plural, but see next note
[2] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.117-118, where this accusative singular phrase occurs, albeit with other words intervening (web address 1 below).
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 26 August 1998@19:08:39.
Vetted by:William Hutton (Added headword, modified translation, keyword, raised status) on 30 January 2001@08:35:45.
David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 23 April 2002@09:07:46.
Jennifer Benedict (betacoding, added link) on 24 March 2008@17:14:36.
David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; cosmetics) on 25 March 2008@05:00:13.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 19 December 2011@08:10:13.
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