Γειοτόμον

earth-cleaving

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Jul 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

4 words

[sc. Describing] the plough.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Γειοτόμον· τὸ ἄροτρον.

Betacode

*geioto/mon: to\ a)/rotron.

Poetic adjective, here neuter singular; quoted probably from Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.687, geioto/mon ... a)/rotron, though the same phrase occurs also in Oppian, Cynegetica 1.137.
cf. Etymologicum Magnum 229.47, and ps.-Zonaras s.v.