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Headword:
Ὠλέναι
Adler number: omega,65
Translated headword: Forearms
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Feminine. The forearms of the hands.[1]
Also shining-forearmed.[2]
"He came to be carried by unblemished forearms."[3]
But [note also] Ωλὴν , [genitive] ὠλῆνος , masculine; τοῖς ὠλέσι , [dative] plural.[4]
Greek Original:Ὠλέναι: θηλυκῶς. οἱ πήχεις τῶν χειρῶν. καὶ Λευκώλεναι. ἐποχούμενος ἐπέστη ἀκηράτοις ὠλέναις. Ὠλὴν δέ, ὠλῆνος, ἀρσενικόν: τοῖς ὠλέσι, πληθυντικόν.
Notes:
[1] It is possible that
χειρῶν here refers to the entire arm, or that the "forearms of the hands" are the fingers. In any event the gloss elucidates one word for forearm,
ὠλένη , with another,
πῆχυς .
[2] A Homeric epithet (e.g. of
Hera in
Iliad 1.55): see LSJ s.v.
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] Cf.
omega 70.
Translated by: Benjamin Stevens on 21 May 2000@11:11:09.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation and notes; added keywords; cosmetics) on 15 May 2001@06:05:00.
Catharine Roth (deleted link) on 4 July 2007@23:26:04.
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