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Headword:
*)ah/suron
Adler number: alpha,663
Translated headword: light-as-air
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which is slender, that which is in mid-air and nimble, that which is light-weight, from being borne along [su/resqai] on the air [a)e/ri].[1] In reference to birds.[2] [sc. But exemplified also in the phrase] "he might bend a knee light-as-air."[3]
Greek Original:*)ah/suron: to\ lepto\n, to\ mete/wron kai\ kou=fon, to\ e)lafro/n, para\ to\ a)e/ri su/resqai. e)pi\ o)rne/wn. a)h/suron go/nu ka/myoi.
Notes:
The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere; possibly, though not demonstrably, the quotation given here.
[1] These glosses also occur, in various permutations, in
Hesychius and elsewhere, including Apollonius's
Homeric Lexicon. (But no instance of the headword is extant in
Homer.)
[2] This remark is not paralleled in other lexica. (Used in reference to
ants in (?)
Aeschylus,
Prometheus Bound 452-3.)
[3]
Callimachus,
Hecale fr. 311 Pfeiffer (where the editor prints a lacuna between adjective and noun).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 March 2001@21:53:01.
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