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Headword:
Krêmnos
Adler number: kappa,2388
Translated headword: crag
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] chasm.[1]
Aristophanes [writes]: "crushing crags".[2] That is sending and hurling crags at [them]. He has said [this] after "thunder-hurling;" this also is excessively grand.
Homer also calls a height "crag", since all lofty places [are] crags.[3]
Interpretation of a dream: "falling from a crag indicates misfortune."[4]
Krêmnos: pharanx. Aristophanês: krêmnous ereidôn. toutesti krêmnous epipempôn kai akontizôn. apo tou elasimbrota eilêphe, kai tauta huperonka. Homêros kai tên ochthên krêmnon legei: epeidê panta ta hupsêla krêmnoi. lusis oneirou: krêmnou pesonta dustuchê dêloi tuchên.
Notes:
[1] cf.
kappa 2387 and
kappa 2390:
krhmno/s used in reference to grandiose poetic style. LSJ entry for
krhmno/s (A) at web address 1.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 626-628 (web address 2), and
scholia; the reading
e)rei/dwn is doubtful.
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 21.26, 21.244 (web addresses 3 & 4: referring to banks of rivers) and
scholia; cf.
omicron 1047.
[4] From the dream-interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; dreams; epic; geography; imagery; meter and music; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 January 2001@11:12:48.
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