Ὠλέναι
forearms
Translated by Benjamin Stevens21 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠλέναι· θηλυκῶς. οἱ πήχεις τῶν χειρῶν. καὶ Λευκώλεναι. ἐποχούμενος ἐπέστη ἀκηράτοις ὠλέναις. Ὠλὴν δέ, ὠλῆνος, ἀρσενικόν· τοῖς ὠλέσι, πληθυντικόν.
Betacode
*)wle/nai: qhlukw=s. oi( ph/xeis tw=n xeirw=n. kai\ *leukw/lenai. e)poxou/menos e)pe/sth a)khra/tois w)le/nais. *)wlh\n de/, w)lh=nos, a)rseniko/n: toi=s w)le/si, plhquntiko/n.
Notes (4)
- 1It is possible that
xeirw=n here refers to the entire arm, or that the 'forearms of the hands' are the fingers. In any event, the gloss elucidates one word for forearm,w)le/nh , with another,ph=xus . See LSJ entry at web address 1. ↩ - 2An Homeric epithet (e.g. of Hera in Iliad 1.55): see LSJ s.v. (web address 2). Here feminine nominative plural, not independently attested. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4cf. omega 70, where the stem vowel is, as commonly attested, epsilon rather than eta. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 31 Oct 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note 4 — Catharine Roth
- cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
- Improvements to the translation; added links to LSJ-Perseus — Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou
- deleted link — Catharine Roth
- modified translation and notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Benjamin Stevens