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Headword:
*prhmainou/sas
te
que/llas
Adler number: pi,2262
Translated headword: and blasting squalls
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Aristophanes in
Clouds [sc. uses the phrase]. A squall, a dense mass of wind.[1] But
prhmainou/sas ["blasting"] [means] raging, and blowing violently. For
prh=sai ["to swell out by blowing"] [is] the [sc. verb that means]
fush=sai ["to blow up"].[2]
Homer [writes]: "the wind blew into and swelled out the middle of the sail."[3]
Greek Original:*prhmainou/sas te que/llas: *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais. qu/ella, sustrofh\ tou= a)ne/mou. prhmainou/sas de\ mainome/nas, kai\ la/brws fusw/sas: prh=sai ga\r to\ fush=sai. *(/omhros: e)n d' a)/nemos prh=se me/son i(sti/on.
Notes:
The headword phrase is extracted from
Aristophanes,
Clouds 336 (web address 1), where Strepsiades sarcastically cites the phrase (but probably inaccurately; see Dover, pp. 145-6) as an example of dithyrambic choral verse.
The lemma's participle is present active, feminine accusative plural, of the verb
prhmai/nw,
I blow hard, blast; see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] This definition of
qu/ella follows the
scholia to the aforementioned passage; cf.
theta 533.
[2] Aorist active infinitive of
prh/qw. See also
pi 2261 and
pi 2266.
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 1.481 (web address 2), describing the strong, favorable wind that Apollo provided the Achaeans upon their return from having delivered Chryseis to her father on
Tenedos.
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; meter and music; poetry; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 11 December 2010@13:38:07.
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