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Headword:
*oi)=dma
Adler number: omicroniota,35
Translated headword: swell
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] wave, or open sea.[1]
"[...] and sea's fierce swell."[2]
Greek Original:*oi)=dma: ku=ma, h)\ pe/lagos. kai\ a)/grion oi)=dma qala/sshs.
Notes:
The headword is a neuter noun, largely confined to poetry, from the root for swelling (
omicroniota 30).
[1] cf. the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 21.234, where the headword occurs (dative case). Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius omicron75 Theodoridis.
[2] A poetic phrase associated with Gregory of Nazianzus: see
Poems about himself (
Carmina de se ipso) PG 37.971.10,
Poems which relate to others (
Carmina quae spectant ad alios) PG 37.1536.7, and cf.
Carmina moralia 770.1). Its antecedents lie in (e.g.) "fierce swell" at Apollonius Rhodius,
Argonautica 4.947, and
Greek Anthology 9.36.4; see also
Greek Anthology 6.30.3, and
Aristophanes,
Birds 250 (
e)pi\ po/ntion oi)=dma qala/sshs).
Translated by: Robert Dyer on 12 January 2003@06:51:35.
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