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Headword:
*(ri/a
Adler number: rho,157
Translated headword: peaks
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] headlands of a mountain,[1] vertical, and those extending into the sea.[2]
From the [verb]
r(ai+/zein, which is to come to an end at a point.[3]
And
Thucydides [writes]: "one side [had a plan] not to sail out beyond Rhia into open water, fearful [of what had happened before]."[4]
*(ri/a: a)krwth/ria o)/rous, o)/rqia, kai\ ta\ ei)s qa/lassan e)gkei/mena. para\ to\ r(ai/+zein, o(/ e)stin ei)s o)cu\ lh/gein. kai\ *qoukudi/dhs: oi( me\n mh\ e)kplei=n e)/cw tw=n r(i/wn e)s th\n eu)ruxwri/an fobou/menoi.
Notes:
See also
rho 177.
[1] Some mss. omit 'of a mountain'.
[2] Likewise in glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius rho115 Theodoridis.
[3] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 14.225, where the singular of the headword occurs (web address 1).
[4]
Thucydides 2.86.5 (web address 2), on naval operations in the Corinthian Gulf in 429/8.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 August 2010@04:32:21.
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