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Headword:
*metew/rous
nh=as
Adler number: mu,773
Translated headword: open-sea ships, ships on the high seas
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A phrase] in
Thucydides meaning ones on the ocean and not riding at anchor, but far from land. [The adjective comes] from a metaphor of things being far from land and on a mountain [
o)/ros]. Alternatively from having left the land and staying in the air [
a)h/r].
*metew/rous nh=as: para\ *qoukudi/dh| a)nti\ tou= pelagi/ous kai\ mh\ e)p' a)gkurw=n i(stame/nas, a)ll' a)pexou/sas th=s gh=s. e)k metafora=s tw=n a)pexo/ntwn th=s gh=s kai\ e)n o)/rei o)/ntwn. h)\ para\ to\ a)fei=nai th\n gh=n kai\ peri\ to\n a)e/ra loipo\n ei)=nai.
Notes:
From the
scholia to
Thucydides 1.48.2 (web address 1), where the headword phrase -- in the accuative case -- occurs.
For the adjective see already
mu 764,
mu 770,
mu 772, and again
mu 774; and generally LSJ s.v. (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 27 September 2001@03:32:14.
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