Πολλοστημόριον

many times smaller; fraction

Translated by Ronald Allen15 Apr 2008Vetting: high2 revisions

7 words

Translation

[Meaning] the ultimate part of the earth.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πολλοστημόριον· τὸ ἔσχατον μέρος τῆς γῆς.

Betacode
*pollosthmo/rion: to\ e)/sxaton me/ros th=s gh=s. 

Notes

  1. The headword is the neuter nominative/accusative singular of the two-ending adjective pollosthmo/rios (a number of times smaller: LSJ s.v.). Here however, and presumably therefore in the context from which it was quoted (perhaps Lucian, Icaromenippus 18), it simply means a (sc. small) geographical fraction, i.e. as if it were the phrase pollosto\n mo/rion; cf. e.g. Thucydides 6.86.5 with scholion, and generally LSJ s.v. pollosto/s, 3.

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Revision history2 revisions · last 8 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. modified headword and note; another keyword — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Ronald Allen

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