Ἀραιὴν χεῖρα

skinny hand, dainty hand

Translated by Jennifer Benedict10 Jul 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

11 words

[Meaning] the feeble one; and [sc. this adjective] is [also] aspirated.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀραιὴν χεῖρα· τὴν ἀσθενῆ· καὶ δασύνεται.

Betacode

*)araih\n xei=ra: th\n a)sqenh=: kai\ dasu/netai.

From two scholia on Homer, Iliad 5.425, where the accusative-case headword phrase occurs (in Athena's disparagement of Aphrodite) but with the two elements reversed. (The metre there also shows that araios originally had an initial digamma.)
cf. alpha 3836.