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Headword:
Niphetos
Adler number: nu,439
Translated headword: snowstorm
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] quite thin descending snow. "There are four congealments of watery moisture in the air. Up above the earth, the lesser kind is snow, and the greater kind is hail. Down below on the earth, the lesser is hoar-frost, and the greater is frost. But a snowstorm is not congealment; rather its quality is of a different appearance."[1]
"So when the Scythian land is sprinkled often with a snowstorm, and it is impossible for them to live in any weather other than frozen."[2]
And elsewhere: "but for you, queen, being what you are, even the snowstorm chill bears fruit." [3]
Greek Original:Niphetos: hê kataleptos katapheromenê chiôn. tessares eisi pêxeis tês en tôi aeri hudatôdous pêxeôs hugrotêtos: huper gên men anô, ep' elatton men chiôn, epi pleon de chalaza: epi gês de katô, ep' elatton men pachnê, epi pleon de krustalos: ho de niphetos pêxis ouk estin, alla mallon peri tên alloian chroian hê poiotês hautê. hate tês chôras tôn Skuthôn thama niphetôi palunomenês, kai adunaton on autois aneu krumôdous katastêmatos bioteuein. kai authis: es de s', anassa, toiên chô niphoeis krumos opôrophorei.
Notes:
The first paragraph of this entry is also in the
Synagoge,
Photius (nu229 Theodoridis) and
Lexica Segueriana 309.10, and similarly elsewhere, including a scholion on
Homer,
Odyssey 4.566 (where the headword occurs).
[1] Quotation unidentifiable (but see under
chi 5 for something broadly similar).
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley (112-113, =
De Legationibus 7); cf.
pi 120. Under orders from Chosroes (cf.
chi 418 generally), the Persians poison all but a few of the Turkish envoys in the embassy of 567-568, and then circulate a rumor that they died from exposure to the heat and aridity of Persia. Find further extracts from this fragment at
theta 509,
pi 88, and
omega 116.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.252.5-6 (
Antiphilus), on the gift of a quince, preserved in winter, to a noblewoman of high rank; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 92-93); (vol. II, 117); and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 904,
alpha 976,
alpha 4212,
kappa 2502,
mu 934,
pi 3074, and
sigma 903.
R.C. Blockley, ed. and trans., The History of Menander the Guardsman, (Cambridge 1985)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; imagery; poetry; science and technology; women
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 25 November 2009@06:54:06.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (tweaks, keywords, status) on 25 November 2009@22:14:26.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 26 November 2009@03:25:37.
David Whitehead (updated n.2) on 3 January 2012@06:53:38.
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded notes) on 10 June 2013@04:26:58.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 5 December 2014@23:45:54.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 18 April 2019@19:16:10.
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