Βάσις

stepping

Translated by Craig Gibson6 Jun 2002Vetting: high6 revisions

10 words

[Meaning] walking. "Like some keen-scented stepping of a Spartan bitch."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βάσις· βάδισις. κυνὸς Λακαίνης ὥς τις εὔρινος βάσις.

Betacode

*ba/sis: ba/disis. kuno\s *lakai/nhs w(/s tis eu)/rinos ba/sis.

[1] Sophocles, Ajax 8 (Athena reassures Odysseus that he will track down Ajax), with the gloss from the preceding line. Also at lambda 47 and epsilon 3689.