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Headword: Kuma
Adler number: kappa,2675
Translated headword: wave
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Aristophanes [writes]: "and [they] having these things in the clutches of waves."[1] Meaning being in many perils and dire straits.
[Note] that in colloquial language big waves are called 'goats'.[2] Whence comes also [the verb] 'I goat upon' [applied to] 'I blow strenuously'.
Greek Original:
Kuma: Aristophanês: kai taut' echontes kumatôn en ankalais. anti tou ontes en pollois kindunois kai anankais. hoti ta megala kumata en têi sunêtheiai aiges legetai. ex hou kai epaigizô epi tou sphodrôs pneô.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 704 (web address 1); cf. scholia ad loc. and kappa 1205, where the same line is quoted.
[2] Repeated from alphaiota 28; cf. Hesychius alpha1700, who identifies this use of the word as Doric; Synagoge s.v. ai)=ges.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 8 April 2008@03:13:52.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 8 April 2008@04:17:41.
David Whitehead on 20 March 2013@08:48:49.
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