Σκαπάνη
spade
Translated by William Hutton1 Feb 2014Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σκαπάνη· σκάφιον, ὀρύγιον, δικέλλιον. ὁ παρ' ἡμῖν τζόκος λεγόμενος.
Betacode
*skapa/nh: ska/fion, o)ru/gion, dike/llion. o( par' h(mi=n tzo/kos lego/menos.
Notes (2)
- 1= Hesychius sigma851, Synagoge sigma105, Photius sigma279 Theodoridis; cf. Pollux 7.148, 10.129. Some of the glosses offered here on this feminine noun also occur in the scholia to Theocritus, Idylls 4.10, where the Doric accusative singular form of the headword occurs (in reference to an athlete taking exercise). ↩
- 2Adler reports this additional sentence as absent from mss AF, though it appears in the margin of A in a more recent hand. The word used as a gloss here,
tzo/kos , first appears in Byzantine sources. Its precise meaning is uncertain but is sometimes used in the context of implements used for undermining walls in a siege, e.g. Nicephorus Uranus, Tactica 65.17. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 27 Feb 2022
- another keyword — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- set status — Catharine Roth
- Translated — William Hutton