Λειόβατος

smooth-trodden

Translated by David Whitehead31 Mar 2009Vetting: high5 revisions

7 words

[sc. A term describing] a level place.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λειόβατος· ὁ ὁμαλὸς τόπος.

Betacode

*leio/batos: o( o(malo\s to/pos.

Comparably in ps.-Zonaras 1294 and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon (250). Other sources identify the headword as a kind of fish (a ray or skate): Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 7.312B (7.89 Kaibel) quoting Plato Comicus (fr. 137 Kock, now 146 K.-A.), Hesychius, ps.-Herodian.