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Headword: Δούρειος
Adler number: delta,1429
Translated headword: planked, wooden
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The Greeks' wooden horse.[1]
Aristophanes: 'in size as big as the wooden one, they would have the width to drive past each other, [...] and as to the length, [...] a hundred cubits,'.[2]
Greek Original:
Δούρειος: ὁ ξύλινος ἵππος τῶν Ἑλλήνων. Ἀριστοφάνης: μέγεθος ὅσον ὁ δούρειος, ὑπὸ τοῦ πλάτους ἂν παρελασαίτην, τὸ δὲ μῆκος, ἑκατοντόργυιον.
Notes:
[1] So in e.g. Euripides, Trojan Women 14 (if authentic); Plato, Theaetetus 184D. The Homeric form was δουράτεος (Odyssey 8.493 etc.); delta 1428. For the phrase see again under delta 1541.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1128-31 (with prior mention of horses), here compressed; cf. epsilon 1831.
Keywords: comedy; definition; epic; mythology; science and technology; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 13 May 2003@03:42:25.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth on 31 May 2003@01:25:58.
David Whitehead (added keyword) on 1 June 2003@04:20:32.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 4 August 2004@03:32:56.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 27 July 2007@05:03:07.
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