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Headword: Χειροβρῶτι
Adler number: chi,249
Translated headword: hand-gnawing
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
A fetter, eating the hands off.
Greek Original:
Χειροβρῶτι: ὁ δεσμός, ὁ ἀποβιβρώσκων τὼ χεῖρε.
Note:
Hesychius chi287 and Zenobius 6.44 both give 'with a hand-gnawing fetter' as a phrase in the dative case, and gloss it as 'with a boxer's [hand-]straps'; and Zenobius connects it with Stesichorus' [sigma 1095] Funeral Games for Pelias.
Keywords: athletics; daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 22 March 2006@05:19:47.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 22 March 2006@20:06:56.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 23 March 2006@03:07:55.
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