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Headword:
Krêmnôdê
kataniphei
Adler number: kappa,2389
Translated headword: [if] it snows precipitously
Vetting Status: high
Translation: If [spelled] with eta, [
krhmna/] means "greatly",[1] but if with iota,
kri/mna [is] a kind of meal, from which flour is made, that is wheat-meal;[2] and
leukai/nein [is] to sprinkle.[3]
Homer [says]: "when snow sprinkled the fields."[4]
Krêmnôdê kataniphei: ei men dia tou ê anti tou megala, ei de dia tou i krimna eidos aleurou, ex hou hê paipalê ginetai, toutesti to aleuron: kai to leukainein palunein. Homêros: hote per te chiôn epalunen arouras.
Notes:
The headword phrase comes from
Aristophanes,
Clouds 965; cf.
kappa 2261. The
scholia there lie behind the gloss here (but note n.3 below).
[1] LSJ entry for
krhmnw/dhs at web address 1.
[2] LSJ entry for
krimnw/dhs at web address 2.
[3] A stray extract from the
scholia on an earlier line (262) of
Clouds.
[4]
Homer,
Iliad 10.7, in a simile (web address 3); cf.
pi 120.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 January 2001@22:20:39.
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