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Headword: Ἑανῷ λιτί
Adler number: epsilon,9
Translated headword: with fine linen
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Thus he called the light [fabric].[1]
And elsewhere: "great Egypt tore her locks with a fine garment."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἑανῷ λιτί: οὕτω κέκληκε τὸν λεπτόν. καὶ αὖθις: ἁ μεγάλα δ' Αἴγυπτος ἑανῷ δάψατο χαίτην.
Notes:
For this adjective cf. epsilon 8.
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.352, where the headword phrase occurs.
[2] A misquotation of Greek Anthology 7.241.5: see the note at delta 102, where it partially recurs. (For the use of the headword as noun as well as adjective, attested from Homer onwards, see LSJ s.v., II.)
Keywords: clothing; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 8 June 1999@18:19:22.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 24 June 2001@09:24:11.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; raised status) on 23 June 2011@08:04:00.
David Whitehead (tweaked a note) on 5 December 2011@04:34:14.
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