Στελεός

shaft, handle

Translated by Catharine Roth27 Feb 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

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"For if you [oak trees] did not keep producing all the handles, a farmer would not have an axe in his house." Babrius the fabulist says [this].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Στελεός. εἰ μὴ γὰρ ὑμεῖς στελεὰ πάντα τίκτητε, οὐκ ἂν γεωργὸς πέλεκυν ἐν δόμοις εἶχε. Βάβριος φησὶν ὁ μυθογράφος.

Betacode

*steleo/s. ei) mh\ ga\r u(mei=s stelea\ pa/nta ti/kthte, ou)k a)\n gewrgo\s pe/lekun e)n do/mois ei)=xe. *ba/brios fhsi\n o( muqogra/fos.

Babrius 142.7-8 (Rutherford 141.1-2, Crusius 143.4-5: manuscript readings vary); Zeus speaking.
This seems to be the plural of steleo/n (sigma 1029) rather than of steleo/s; stelea/ also occurs. LSJ entries at web address 1, web address 2, web address 3.
See also sigma 1079.

E. Husselman, TAPhA 66.122

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