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Headword: Ὠκύπτερον
Adler number: omega,58
Translated headword: swift-winged
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Quick-flying.
Greek Original:
Ὠκύπτερον: ταχυπέτη.
Note:
Used literally of a hawk in Homer, Iliad 13.62, web address 1 (for further literal applications see LSJ s.v.) and figuratively of ships in Aeschylus, Suppliant Women 734 (web address 2). Similarly glossed in Hesychius and the Lexica Segueriana.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Edward Dandrow on 9 June 2000@22:30:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, note, keywords) on 21 June 2001@04:56:45.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 28 November 2005@10:34:31.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 4 July 2007@23:29:03.
Catharine Roth (augmented note, added link, raised status) on 14 September 2007@00:55:59.
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