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Headword:
Ouranion
g'
hoson
Adler number: omicron,935
Translated headword: as far as heaven, heaven-high, to heaven
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning copious and great.[1]
"They raised their cries to heaven."[2]
Greek Original:Ouranion g' hoson: anti tou polu kai mega. hoi de anekragon ouranion hoson.
Notes:
The headword phrase is quoted from
Aristophanes,
Frogs 781 (web address 1); cf. next note and Dover, p. 288.
[1] The gloss follows the
scholia to the aforementioned verse; cf.
alpha 2212, and (for 'great')
Photius'
Lexicon omicron675 Theodoridis s.v.
ou)ra/nion. See also
Photius omicron678 s.v.
ou)ra/nion a)/xos with the other references there.
[2]
Procopius,
Secret History 16.20; already more fully at
alpha 3151.
Reference:
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes: Frogs, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; history
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 4 August 2010@02:18:10.
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