[B-Greek] Help Deciphering a LSJ reference
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Thu Apr 1 13:37:59 EST 2004
Dear Maurice,
I haven't been following the discussion but happened to see your note.
There are indeed 17 books to Strabo's Geography and EMPLOKHi does occur
in 17.3.7 in the phrase KALLWPIZONTAI . . . KOMHS EMPLOKHi 'They
beautify themselves by braiding their hair'
Al
On Apr 1, 2004, at 8:13 AM, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:
> At 02:12 01/04/2004, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
>
>> In LSJs entry for EMPLOKH, the first entry reads:
>> I. 1. braiding, KOMHS Str.17.3.7 , cf. Nic. Dam.p.2 D., 1 Ep.Pet.3.3.
>
> Philip:
> I agree with you that LSJ give a reference for Strabo as 17.3.7
> The only problem I have with that is that the Perseus site lists only
> 14 books for Strabo's "Geography"
>
> Using my own Perseus program, I have found the only occurrence of
> EMPLOKH in Strabo
> is in the form EMPLOKAS -- at 13.4.12 where the phrase is rendered in
> the Loeb translation as:
> >> The parts situated next to this region towards the south as far as
> the Taurus are so inwoven with one another <<
>
> The translation of EMPLOKH at 1 P 3:3 [ braided ] is in line with that
> curiously old-fashioned term "invwoven" of the Loeb edition, and also
> in line with the two occurrences of the verb EMPLEKW [ 2 Ti. 2:4 and
> 2P 2:20 ] each translated as "entangled"
>
> Regards,
>
> Maurice
>
> Maurice A. O'Sullivan
> [Bray, Ireland]
>
> "Tradition (which is a product of oblivion and memory)" —Jorge Luis
> Borges
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Albert Pietersma
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Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
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