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Headword:
*quw/nh
Adler number: theta,596
Translated headword: Thyone
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Another name for] Semele.[1] From the [verb] qu/ein, which is to rush.[2]
Greek Original:*quw/nh: h( *seme/lh. para\ to\ qu/ein, o(/ e)stin o(rma=n.
Notes:
cf.
scholia on Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 1.636, and on
Pindar,
Pythian 3.177a; also
Hesychius theta84, and (e.g.)
Diodorus Siculus 3.62.9, 4.25.4.
[1] Mother of Dionysos: see
delta 1185.
[2] Similar glosses in other lexica (and cf.
theta 586). LSJ distinguishes between
qu/w (A), "sacrifice", and
qu/w (B), "seethe". Confusingly, lower-case
quw/nh is defined as a "portion of sacrifice" (i.e. from
qu/w (A)), after the proper name has been stated to derive from
qu/w (B).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; mythology; poetry; religion; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 17 August 2007@07:11:15.
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