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Headword:
Στειλειός
Adler number: sigma,1079
Translated headword: shaft, handle
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The wood[-en part] of the axe.[1]
"For what strength did your steel have, if a shaft had not been fitted to it?"[2]
Greek Original:Στειλειός: τὸ τῆς ἀξίνης ξύλον. τί γὰρ σθένος ἔσκε σιδήρῳ ὑμείων, εἰ μή οἱ ἐνὶ στειλειὸν ἀρήρει;
Notes:
[1] Epic form of
στελεόν (
sigma 1029); see
Homer,
Odyssey 5.236 at web address 1.
[2] Fragment of a dactylic fable, in appendix to Crusius' edition of
Babrius, p. 218; cf.
sigma 1030.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; poetry; science and technology; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2001@18:01:13.
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