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Headword: Κακορραφίαι
Adler number: kappa,167
Translated headword: patchworks of evil
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Evil contrivances.
Greek Original:
Κακορραφίαι: κακοσυνθέσεις.
Notes:
Same entry in Photius and the Synagoge. Nominative plural, evidently quoted from somewhere.
cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 15.16, where the genitive singular appears (web address 1 below). See also Hesychius' entry on κακορραφία (the singular form of the Suda's headword here), which gives as its gloss συνθεσία , the singular form of the Suda's gloss κακοσυνθέσεις .
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 March 2008@21:22:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and note; more keywords) on 10 March 2008@05:05:22.
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