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Headword:
Homichlê
Adler number: omicron,258
Translated headword: mist
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] blindness, or thick air.[1]
Mist [is] air made dense and not transparent, not bright.[2]
Homer [writes]: "the south wind spread a mist on high around the mountain."[3] [The word] was coined from the placing of darkness [
a)xlu\n] over the eyes [
o)/mmasin].[4]
Aristophanes [writes]: "because of war and mist, [the things] which you do in a villainous manner may not be looked down upon."[5] Meaning because of present evils constrained by war he may not expose your evil deeds.
Homichlê: aorasia, ê pachus aêr. Homichlê, ho tetholômenos aêr kai mê diaugês, mêde lampros. Homêros: eut' oreos koruphêisi notos katecheuen homichlên. etumologeitai de para to tois ommasin achlun parechein. Aristophanês: hupo tou polemou kai tês homichlês, ha panourgeis, mê kathoratai. anti tou hupo tôn periestôtôn kakôn kai tou polemou sunechomenos mê elenchêi ta sa kakourgêmata.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar entries in other lexica (references at
Photius omicron284 Theodoridis), and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.359 (where the headword occurs: web address 1).
[2] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Knights 803 (quoted later in the entry).
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 3.10.
[4] The author speculates that
o(mi/xlh was formed as a combination of
o)/mmasin and
a)xlu\n because of the similarity in appearance the resulting word would have to
o(mi/xlh.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Knights 803 (web address 2). The text of
Aristophanes reads
kaqora=| sou in the active voice, with Demos as the subject.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; military affairs; politics
Translated by: Amanda Aponte on 5 November 2009@12:41:00.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented and modified notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 November 2009@03:45:58.
David Whitehead (adjustments) on 25 June 2013@07:05:52.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation and note) on 14 January 2021@01:00:07.
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