Ζώπυρα

sparks, spark-producers

Translated by David Whitehead27 May 2005Vetting: high5 revisions

10 words

[Meaning] bellows, which enable smiths to blow up the fire.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ζώπυρα· φυσητῆρες, ὅθεν οἱ χαλκεῖς τὸ πῦρ φυσῶσιν.

Betacode

*zw/pura: fushth=res, o(/qen oi( xalkei=s to\ pu=r fusw=sin.

Same or similar entry in other lexica. Latte on Hesychius zeta250 regards the headword as quoted from the Septuagint (4 Maccabees 8.13).
For the headword in this sense see also Ephorus FGrH 70 F42 (an invention credited to Anacharsis); and cf. zeta 154, zeta 156.

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