Σημάντορες

indicators

Translated by Antonella Ippolito27 Mar 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

3 words

[Meaning] leaders, commanders.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Σημάντορες· ἐπιτάκτορες, ἡγεμόνες.

Betacode

*shma/ntores: e)pita/ktores, h(gemo/nes.

An Homeric gloss (also in the Synagoge and Photius' Lexicon), generated by Odyssey 19.314 (where this nominative plural occurs; Iliad 4.431 has the accusative plural).
cf. Hesychius sigma496, adding basilei=s as a synonym and the etymology from shmai/nw (in the meaning of "giving directions").

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