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Headword:
Phoôs
Adler number: phi,579
Translated headword: light
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Homer [writes]: "he/she/it brought to the light."[1] [Meaning] before the completion of the defined time. [
Homer] says concerning gates too: "having been spread apart, they produced light."[2] Not so as to illuminate -- through the middle of the gate -- the city, but rather [providing] security for those taking flight. As in, "he made light for his comrades, hitting the man."[3]
Greek Original:Phoôs: Homêros: êgage pro phoôsde. pro tês teleiôseôs tou hôrismenou kairou. peri de tôn pulôn legei: hai de petastheisai teuxan phaos. hôs ou dia mesês tês pulês phôtizesthai tên polin, alla tên sôtêrian tôn pheugontôn. hôs to, phoôs d' hetaroisin ethêken, andra balôn.
Notes:
The epic headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular (it is found in no other case or number), is a lengthening of
fw=s (
phi 671; LSJ s.v.), which in turn is a contraction of
fa/os (
phi 88; LSJ s.v.). The gloss employs the adverb of place (cf. Smyth, ยง342; Monro, 109).
[1] The quotation approximates both
Homer,
Iliad 16.188 (web address 1) and
Homer,
Iliad 19.118 (web address 2).
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 21.538, with scholion (web address 3).
Zenodotus [
zeta 75] rejected
Homer,
Iliad 21.538-9. Regarding this passage, the scholiast conjectured that
Zenodotus understood
fa/os "light" as "illumination" instead of figuratively as "salvation" (cf. Aristonicus in the A
scholia; Erbse; Richardson, p. 98). Indeed, modern translators often follow the scholiast by translating
fa/os here as "deliverance" (Murray, p. 445) or "haven of refuge" (Butler, web address 3).
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 6.6 (web address 4): illustrating
fo/ws in the sense of "refuge, salvation."
References:
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.
D.B. Monro, A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Philadelphia, PA: W.H. Allen, 1992.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, vols. I-VII, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969-1988.
N. Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary, vol. VI, gen. ed. G.S. Kirk, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
A.T. Murray, trans., W.F. Wyatt, rev., Homer: Iliad, Books 11-24, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3,
Web address 4
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs
Translated by: Ronald Allen on 12 August 2007@13:18:16.
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