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Headword:
Erebodiphountes
Adler number: epsilon,2921
Translated headword: groping about in Erebos, groping about in the murk
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they] feeling around in darkness.[1] "The Romans finished groping about in the murk on their underground [tunnels]."[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
e)rebodifw=si ["they grope about in Erebos"], [meaning] they search after the things in Erebos, that is, they seek out and closely examine underground things.
Aristophanes in
Clouds [writes]: "they grope about in Erebos under Tartaros." [3]
Erebodiphountes: ta hupo skotos psêlaphôntes. hoi de Rhômaioi apeponoun erebodiphountes ta hupochthonia. kai, Erebodiphôsi, ta hupo to erebos diphôsi, toutesti ta hupo gên zêtousi kai katamanthanousin. Aristophanês Nephelais: erebodiphôsin hupo ton Tartaron.
Notes:
[1] The headword is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of the comic coinage
e)rebodifa/w, later taken up in Byzantine historiography (and in this instance presumably extracted from the quotation which immediately follows).
cf. generally
epsilon 2917.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 2.7.6, quoted more fully in
alpha 3032 and
chi 348.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 192 (web address 1), with the
scholia.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; imagery; military affairs; mythology; science and technology
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 21 May 2007@15:50:23.
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