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Headword:
*stugo\s
melanoka/rdios
pe/tra
Adler number: sigma,1254
Translated headword: black-hearted rock of Styx
Vetting Status: high
Translation: For emphatic expression he said "black-hearted;" for the rock does not have a heart.
Aristophanes in
Frogs [sc. uses the phrase].[1]
For Styx is a spring in [the realm of] Hades,[2] an oath of the gods.[3]
[sc. So named] from its hatefulness [
stugno/ths].
*stugo\s melanoka/rdios pe/tra: dia\ to\ th=s le/cews sfodro\n ei)=pe melanoka/rdion: ou) ga\r e)/xei kardi/an h( pe/tra. *)aristofa/nhs *batra/xois. *stu\c ga\r krh/nh e)n a(/|dou, o(/rkos qew=n. a)po\ th=s stugno/thtos.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 470 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
tau 1124.
[2] cf.
sigma 1252.
[3] In other words, the gods swear by the Styx. Similar notes in other lexica, and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 2.755 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 November 2010@01:28:02.
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