Κοτυλήρυτον
copious, flowing by the cupful, flowing by the handful
Translated by Nick Nicholas10 Feb 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κοτυλήρυτον· πολύ, ὥστε κοτύλῃ ἀρύεσθαι, ὅ ἐστι κοίλῳ τινί.
Betacode
*kotulh/ruton: polu/, w(/ste kotu/lh| a)ru/esqai, o(/ e)sti koi/lw| tini/.
Notes (2)
- 1The headword adjective occurs in Homer, Iliad 23.34, referring to flowing blood. The definition appears in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (cf. Aristonicus, De signis Iliadis, and Hesychius kappa3817); see also LSJ. ↩
- 2Paraphrased from the Homeric scholia: "a
kotu/lh is anything hollow, so they would also call the hollow of the hand akotu/lh ". On thekotu/lh cf. kappa 2166. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 13 Apr 2015
- tweaked note 1 — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas