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Headword:
*tufw/n
Adler number: tau,1224
Translated headword: typhoon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] a violent thunderstorm, massive and windy. Or a smoky wind that bursts forth from a cloud.[1]
It is also spoken with a sigma [i.e.] tufw/s.
"A lamb, boys, bring out a black lamb, for a typhoon is about to break out."[2] Because they call stormy winds a typhoon. It was customary to slaughter a black lamb for him,[3] so that the wind would cease.
Greek Original:*tufw/n: kerauno\s bi/aios, polu\s kai\ pneumatw/dhs. h)\ pneu=ma kapnw=des, e)rrwgo\s a)po\ ne/fous. le/getai kai\ dia\ tou= s tufw/s: a)/rn', a)/rna me/lainan pai=des e)cene/gkate: tufw\s ga\r e)kbai/nein paraskeua/zetai. tou\s ga\r kataigidw/deis a)ne/mous tufw\s kalou=si. tou/tw| e)no/mizon me/lana a)/rna sfagia/zein, o(/pws lh/ch| to\ pneu=ma.
Notes:
See also
tau 1222,
tau 1223,
tau 1125,
tau 1226,
tau 1127,
tau 1228.
[1] From
Diogenes Laertius 7.154 (Stoic doctrine). See web address 1.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 847-8 (web address 2), followed by comments from the
scholia. In both the quotation and the comments the spelling with sigma,
tufw/s, is used.
[3] In parts of the
scholia not reproduced here, it is clear that the scholiast interprets the sacrifice as being to the
demon/divinity Typhon (
tau 1228), who either derives his name from or gives his name to the meteorological phenomenon in question.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
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Translated by: William Hutton on 20 February 2013@23:47:13.
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