Being of twelve palms.[1] For the palm [is] a hand's-breadth.[2]
In the
Epigrams: "having drawn back the [bullock's] neck they sacrificed it to
Cyllenius[3] and with a long nail they fixed its horns, twelve hand's-breadths in length, to a plane-tree."[4]
[1] The headword is dative singular of the rare adjective
δωδεκάδωρος . Such a dative is otherwise attested only in the
scholia to Hesiod,
Works and Days 426, where
δεκαδώρῳ occurs and the ancient commentator protested that the proper proportions of waggon-manufacture exposed this as an error for
δωδεκαδώρῳ .
[2] cf.
delta 1472,
epsilon 406.
[3]
Pan (the son of
Hermes - to whom the epithet is more usually applied: cf.
kappa 2660)
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.96.3-5, the MSS of which provide the following readings, translated here:
Κυλληνίῳ ,
ἁλλω (marked with a query; Salmas' emendation
ἅλῳ is translated),
ἔπαξαν .
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