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Ἕλικας · spirals, twists, helices (ε 848) · Suda

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Near ε848

ε844you may take, you would take
ε845Hellespont
ε846was bent
ε847winding
ε848spirals, twists, helices
ε849Helike, Helice
ε850Helikon, Helicon
ε851Heliconius, Helikonios
ε852Helikonios, Heliconius

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε848

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Ἕλικας

spirals, twists, helices

Translated by William Hutton4 Feb 2007Vetting: high7 revisions

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Translation

[Meaning] bracelets that go around the wrists, or earrings.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἕλικας· τὰ περὶ τοὺς καρποὺς ψέλια, ἢ ἐνώτια.

Betacode

*(/elikas: ta\ peri\ tou\s karpou\s ye/lia, h)\ e)nw/tia.

Notes

The headword is accusative plural of LSJ's e(/lic (B).
The entry is derived ultimately from the scholia to Homer, Iliad 18.401 -- where this word appears (web address 1) -- via Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (66.17-22 Bekker, cf. 55.14), which has several additional explanations of the word as a term for a piece of jewelry. Hesychius has similar entries from the same source (epsilon2066, epsilon2069, epsilon2071), and Adler also cites the unedited Ambrosian Lexicon (544).
cf. generally epsilon 847, epsilon 854, epsilon 856.

External resources

Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu

Linked from3 entries

ε862Ἕλιξspiral, helix[e(/lic, genitive] e(/likos.
ε863Ἑλίξαςtwisting[Meaning he] convoluting.
ε1419Ἐνώτιαearrings[Meaning] an ornament around the ears. "He presented him with earrings decorated out of pearls."

Neighbouring entries

ε846Ἐλιάσθηwas bent ε847Ἑλιγμόςwinding ε848Ἕλικαςspirals, twists, helices ε849ἙλίκηHelike, Helice ε850ἙλικώνHelikon, Helicon

Revision history7 revisions · last 11 Jan 2017

11 Jan 2017added a headword translation — Catharine Roth
18 Dec 2015minor cosmetics — David Whitehead
30 Mar 2015coding — Catharine Roth
14 Aug 2012another note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
5 Feb 2007Removed redundant cross-reference — William Hutton
5 Feb 2007more x-refs; another keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
5 Feb 2007corrected cross-reference and link, set status — Catharine Roth
4 Feb 2007Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἕλικας (Adler number epsilon 848), trans. William Hutton, 4 Feb 2007. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/848

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗