[Meaning] the quick [sort].
*)wku/alos nau=s: h( taxei=a.
From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 15.704-5, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1). Compare also
Homer,
Odyssey 12.182, 15.473;
Sophocles,
Ajax 710;
Moschus 2.60. Same glossing in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the
Ambrosian Lexicon; similar in
Hesychius.
Although the adjective
w)ku/alos strictly means "sea-swift, speeding over the sea" (if
-alos is from
a(/ls: see LSJ s.v., web address 2), later writers could apply it to swiftness or violence in other contexts: so
Oppian,
Halieutica 2.535, and already
Pindar,
Parthenia 2.19.
Helma Dik on 2 June 2000@14:45:55.
Helma Dik on 2 June 2000@14:53:11.
David Whitehead (rearranged headword, translation, note; added keyword) on 21 June 2001@03:53:10.
Catharine Roth (augmented notes, modified link, added keyword, raised status) on 14 September 2007@01:23:06.
David Whitehead on 31 October 2013@04:55:38.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 12 September 2023@01:02:21.
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