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Headword: *ai)qe/rion u(/yos
Adler number: alphaiota,115
Translated headword: etherial height
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] that of the aether.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine] ai)qe/rios, [meaning] that which is in the aether.
Greek Original:
*ai)qe/rion u(/yos: to\ tou= ai)qe/ros. kai\ *ai)qe/rios, o( e)n tw=| ai)qe/ri.
Notes:
For the aether cf. alphaiota 121, alphaiota 122.
[1] Tentatively attributed to Callimachus by Adler, but not recognised as such in the editions. A TLG search shows several attestations of it, one of them recurrent: a philosophical passage (variously credited to Theophrastus, Zeno and Posidonius) which includes the phrase ai( pro\s ai)qe/rion u(/yos u(perbolai (of mountains).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; poetry; science and technology
Translated by: William Hutton on 30 October 2002@20:38:57.
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Catharine Roth (added cross-reference) on 8 January 2003@22:59:46.
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