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Headword:
*)anqh/lios
Adler number: alpha,2507
Translated headword: sun-opposite
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the moon; and the shadow of the reflection of the sun; but sometimes also the imitation or exchange, as
Theopompus [says].[1] It also means clouds that throw a shadow over the sun, which are also called
a)nqh/lia.
*)anqh/lios: h( selh/nh: kai\ to\ a)poski/asma th=s tou= h(li/ou a)ntaugei/as: e)ni/ote de\ kai\ to\ mi/mhma h)\ a)nta/llagma, w(s *qeo/pompos. shmai/nei de\ kai\ ta\ e)piskotou=nta tw=| h(li/w| ne/fh, a(\ kai\ *)anqh/lia kalei=tai.
Notes:
Same entry in
Photius and elsewhere; very briefly in
Hesychius. The headword is also spelled
a)nth/lios. LSJ entry at web address 1.
cf.
kappa 2289.
[1] Routinely taken -- including by Adler, and by Theodoridis on
Photius s.v. -- to be
Theopompus the comic poet (thus his fr. 83 Kock), but equally likely to be Th. the historian (thus FGrH 115 F400). Kassel-Austin, at their fr. 103, are equivocal.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; historiography; science and technology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 July 2000@17:34:23.
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