[Meaning] of hidden places, of innermost [ones].
*keuqmw/nwn: kruptw=n to/pwn, e)ndota/twn.
Likewise or similarly in other lexica; see the references at
Photius kappa633 Theodoridis (and
kappa 1436).
This particular genitive plural (already under
alpha 425) is first attested in
Synesius (
Hymns 1.624) and
Origen (
Selecta in Psalmos PG 12.1509). However it seems to have been a variant of
keuqmw=n in
Homer,
Iliad 13.29:
a)/talle de\ kh/te' u(p' au)tou= /
pa/ntoqen e)k keuqmw=n "and sea creatures came gamboling to him [Poseidon] out of their lairs, from every quarter". Apollonius in his
Homeric Lexicon s.v.
keuqmw=nes accounts for
keuqmw=n in the passage as a syncope of
keuqmw/nwn, and the D
scholia ad loc. have the reading
pa/ntoqen e)k keuqmw/nwn.
It is instead assumed that this passage uses a distinct noun
keuqmo/s, a hapax in
Homer, with the same meaning. The dispute is noted in the
scholia vetera: "some consider it a syncope, while others posit
keuqmo/s, like
te[u]qmo/s, in the Ionic dialect, [
keuqmo/s:
keuqmw/n] like
baqu/leimos:
baqulei/mwn." Aristonicus (1 BC-1 CE),
De signis Iliadis ad loc. posits the
keuqmo/s reading as a reason why the passage was marked by editors of the Iliad with a
diple; and
keuqmo/s was used unambiguously by
Callimachus (
Hymn to Zeus 34:
keuqmo/n) and
Lycophron (
Alexandra 317:
keuqmw=|). Of course this only proves that Hellenistic scholarship had decided
keuqmo/s existed as a separate noun.
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