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Headword:
Phaethôn
Adler number: phi,16
Translated headword: shining
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] bright, [referring to the] sun.
Sophocles [writes]: "where now are the thunderbolts of Zeus, or where the shining sun, if they observe these things and quietly hide them away?" [1] That is, [if] they do not bring to light the transgression.
And
Homer: "for the shining sun did not stand over the earth."[2] The Poet shows that the universe is spheroid.
Greek Original:Phaethôn: lampôn, hêlios. Sophoklês: pou pote keraunoi Dios, ê pou phaethôn êelios, ei taut' ephorôntes kruptousin hekêloi; hoion ouk agousin es phôs tên paranomian. kai Homêros: oute gar êelios phaethôn hupereschethe gaiês. deiknusi de ho Poiêtês sphairoeidê einai ton kosmon.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 823-6 (web address 1 below), followed by comment from the
scholia to 826; cf.
kappa 1380.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 11.735 (followed by comment from the
scholia vetera there). The Suda mistakenly gives
ou)/te, "not", for
eu)=te, "when" found in the
Iliad and the
scholia. See web address 2 below for the text.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; epic; imagery; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 March 2001@13:24:05.
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