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Headword:
Thômous
Adler number: theta,429
Translated headword: heaps
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] piles of timbers. 'Heaps' is also the name for piles of wheat. But a whirlwind is a mass of rising vapor from the earth, before catching fire.
Aristophanes [writes]: "then she left, as if bearing the heaps of a great whirlwind and hurricane gathered and twisted round."[1]
And again in the
Epigrams [it is written]: "some Cretan meal, a heap of crumbling [...]."[2]
Thômous: sôrous xulôn. thômoi de legontai kai hoi tôn purôn sôroi. tuphôs de hê ex anathumiaseôs tês gês sustrophê, prin ekpurôthênai. Aristophanês: eith' autên hôsper tous thômous megalôi tuphôi kai prêstêri xustrepsas kai xungongulisas oichoio pherôn. kai authis en Epigrammasi: akta te Krêtaiïs eütribeos teroeip thômou.
Notes:
The headword is accusative plural, extracted from the
Aristophanes passage quoted.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 973-976, with scholion; cf.
tau 1223.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.299.5-6 (
Phanias); tr. by W.R. Paton in the Loeb Classical Library edition of
Greek Anthology, v.1. The Suda's version is garbled, rendering the translation difficult. See also
iota 552.
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 29 February 2008@00:41:57.
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