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Headword: Θαλεροί
Adler number: theta,15
Translated headword: sturdy
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Moist(?), young, in their prime, or swift.[1]
"Those who had been picked out incited the sturdy of the Isaurians into an irrational/surprising act".[2]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] "of bright-eyed dawn", [meaning] of a beautiful day.[3]
Greek Original:
Θαλεροί: δίϋγροι, νέοι, ἀκμαῖοι, ἢ ταχεῖς. οἱ δὲ ἐπιλεξάμενοι τοὺς θαλεροὺς τῶν Ἰσαύρων ὥρμησαν ἐπὶ παράλογον πρᾶξιν. καὶ Θαλερώπιδος ἠριγενείης, τῆς εὐπροσώπου ἡμέρας.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective; similarly glossed in other lexica, and in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.26 (where it occurs, in a simile, of huntsmen: web address 1).
[2] Quotation unidentifiable. (For the Isaurians see iota 616.)
[3] Greek Anthology 7.204.3; cf. alphaiota 159, eta 513.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 April 2008@09:08:37.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (added link and keyword, set status) on 1 April 2008@14:55:31.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2) on 2 April 2008@03:10:54.
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