Κερασφόρους
horned
Translated by Nick Nicholas1 Nov 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[kerasf/orous means the same as] keratofo/rous .
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κερασφόρους· κερατοφόρους.
Betacode
*kerasfo/rous: keratofo/rous.
Notes
- The Suda glosses here the original compound
kerasfo/ros (literally: horn-bearing), which preserves the nominative in its first component, with the more transparentkeratofo/ros , using the late third declension.
The form presented here (though not in other lexica: see the references at Photius kappa590 Theodoridis) is the masculine accusative plural. It is attested four times before the Suda, and the likeliest source is Sophocles fr.89 Radt, quoted in Aelian, History of Animals 7.39: "[the deer] lifting its nose ... and the tines of its horns crept at ease".
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Revision history3 revisions · last 3 Aug 2019
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas