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Headword: Στυγερῆς
Adler number: sigma,1249
Translated headword: abominable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Also [sc. attested is the nominative masculine singular] στυγερός , [meaning] he who is hateful.
Greek Original:
Στυγερῆς: καὶ Στυγερός, ὁ μισητός.
Notes:
The unglossed primary headword, though transmitted as στυγερίς in several manuscripts, has been taken to be the feminine genitive singular of this epic/poetic adjective, presumably quoted from somewhere (e.g. Homer, Odyssey 3.310). Adler reports a similar entry in the Ambrosian Lexicon.
See also sigma 1250, and more generally sigma 1251, sigma 1252, sigma 1253.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 31 October 2010@21:58:08.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 November 2010@04:14:42.
David Whitehead on 1 November 2010@04:23:41.
David Whitehead on 22 August 2011@05:17:21.
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