Ἔγχος

lance

Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝11 Aug 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

3 notes · 24 words

[Meaning a] spear.¹
Homer [writes]: "he was holding a lance of eleven cubits."² For the double [size is one] "of two and twenty cubits".³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἔγχος· δόρυ. Ὅμηρος· ἔγχος ἔχ' ἑνδεκάπηχυ. τὸ γὰρ διπλάσιον, δύο καὶ εἰκοσίπηχυ.