Ἄμαθος

sand

Translated by Jennifer Benedict9 Jun 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

13 words

[Meaning] the dust of the plain. But ya/maqos is that of the sea.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄμαθος· ἡ τῆς πεδιάδος κόνις. Ψάμαθος δὲ ἡ τῆς θαλάσσης.

Betacode

*)/amaqos: h( th=s pedia/dos ko/nis. *ya/maqos de\ h( th=s qala/sshs.

From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.587, where the headword occurs. (Similar material in other lexica.)
See LSJ s.v. and cf. psi 18.