Πίλημα
felts
Translated by Catharine Roth30 Jun 2012Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πίλοις· πιλητοῖς. καὶ Πίλημα λέγεται. φοροῦσι δὲ ἐπὶ ταῖς κεφαλαῖς θώρακας πιλητούς, ὧν τὰ κύτη ὑπάρχουσι στερρὰ διὰ τὴν χρηστότητα τῶν πιλημάτων.
Betacode
*pi/lois: pilhtoi=s. kai\ *pi/lhma le/getai. forou=si de\ e)pi\ tai=s kefalai=s qw/rakas pilhtou/s, w(=n ta\ ku/th u(pa/rxousi sterra\ dia\ th\n xrhsto/thta tw=n pilhma/twn.
Notes (3)
- The early parts of this entry have parallels in other lexica.
- 1The headword is dative plural of
pi=los (pi 1601, pi 1602). [The SOL headword, wrongly, ispi/lhma , on which see next note] It has, for practical purposes, the same glossing in other lexica: see the references at Photius pi880, where Theodoridis notes that the Suda compiler seems to have changed the glossing word frompilwtoi=s topilhtoi=s on his own initiative. Be that as it may,pi/lois itself must be quoted from somewhere -- almost certainly Hesiod, Works and Days 542. ↩ - 2For
pi/lhma , see pi 1385, pi 1597. ↩ - 3Quotation unidentifiable -- and inherently very odd: as its name suggests, a thorax (theta 439, etc.) is routinely worn round the chest, not on the head. (LSJ s.v. offers no enlightenment, but for the 'hollow' of a corslet cf. Aristophanes, Peace 1224.) One is bound to suspect that 'on their heads' is a mistake. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 8 Jul 2014
- cosmeticule — David Whitehead
- coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; augmented and expanded notes — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth