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Headword:
*nireu/s
Adler number: nu,420
Translated headword: Nireus
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He who is fine and beautiful.
[sc. Not to be confused with] neireus, a murex, [or] Nereus, the sea [god].
Greek Original:*nireu/s: o( kalo\s kai\ eu)/morfos. *neireu/s, o( ko/xlos, *nhreu/s, o( qala/ssios.
Notes:
Three nouns that sounded identical in Byzantine Greek. They are already compared in Tryphon I,
*peri\ tro/pwn p. 203 Spengel, and Herodian,
Partitions p. 189, p. 263 Boissonade.
Nireus is mentioned in
Homer,
Iliad 2.673 as "a most beautiful man" (web address 1). The noun
neireu/s is unattested outside philology (the grammarians cited, and
scholia to
Oppian,
Halieutica 1.315); cf.
nhri/ths at
nu 336. On Nereus the sea-god see already
nu 328.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; religion; zoology
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 25 November 2009@05:10:51.
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