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Headword:
Κέληρες
Adler number: kappa,1299
Translated headword: dinghies, yachts
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "He was the first to go beyond with the long ships; but with god bringing on the darkness,[1] the dinghies began to seek the light".
Greek Original:Κέληρες: ὁ μὲν ἔφθη ὑπερβῆναι ταῖς μακραῖς ναυσίν: οἱ δὲ κέληρες, τοῦ θεοῦ συσκοτάζοντος, ἐπεζήτουν τὸ φῶς.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is a noun in the nominative plural. Transmitted thus, as
κέληρες , it is otherwise unattested; it is surely a corruption of
κέλητες (cf.
kappa 1301,
kappa 1303).
Quotation (and individual featured in it) unidentifiable; Adler suggested
Aelian.
[1]
Polybius, Appian and
Plutarch all share this idiom.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 October 2008@08:30:16.
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