Ὁλκοῖς
attractive, drawing to themselves
Translated by Ronald Allen19 Dec 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning by/for/to/with those men or things] able to lead and to drag after themselves.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὁλκοῖς· ἄγειν καὶ ἐφέλκεσθαι δυναμένοις.
Betacode
*(olkoi=s: a)/gein kai\ e)fe/lkesqai duname/nois.
Notes (1)
- The headword, evidently extracted from somewhere, is a masculine (and neuter) adjective in the dative plural; see generally LSJ s.v.
o(lko/s, -h/, -o/n , and cf. omicron 177, and omicron 179. [There is also a masculine noun,o(lko/s (hauling-engine, furrow, track, trail); cf. omicron 175, omicron 176, and omicron 180.] - 1The headword is identically glossed in the Synagoge, Photius' Lexicon (omicron229 Theodoridis) and Lexica Segueriana 316.18. ↩
Linked from5 entries
- ο175Ὁλκόνhauling-engine[Meaning] a strong cord/skein, or extracting[-device], or strap, or track. "He cut the hauling-engine of [ = for] the water."
- ο176Ὁλκόςfurrow[Meaning] a road, or a drawing of a stream, or a tail. Properly, a holkos [is] the trail of serpents, but also, by a figurative use of language, the length of the keel: for in serpentine fashion they used to extend [it]…
- ο177Ὁλκὸς ἄνθρωποςattractive fellow, attractive man[Meaning] one who is engaging and seductive.
- ο179Ὁλκούςattractive, drawing to themselves[Meaning] those [women?] dragging after themselves.
- ο180Ὁλκούςcapstans, hauling-engines, windlasses[Meaning] anchorages/roadsteads.
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