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Headword: Stugos melanokardios petra
Adler number: sigma,1254
Translated headword: black-hearted rock of Styx
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
For emphatic expression he said "black-hearted;" for the rock does not have a heart. Aristophanes in Frogs [sc. uses the phrase].[1]
For Styx is a spring in [the realm of] Hades,[2] an oath of the gods.[3]
[sc. So named] from its hatefulness [stugno/ths].
Greek Original:
Stugos melanokardios petra: dia to tês lexeôs sphodron eipe melanokardion: ou gar echei kardian hê petra. Aristophanês Batrachois. Stux gar krênê en haidou, horkos theôn. apo tês stugnotêtos.
Notes:
[1] Aristophanes, Frogs 470 (web address 1), with scholion; cf. tau 1124.
[2] cf. sigma 1252.
[3] In other words, the gods swear by the Styx. Similar notes in other lexica, and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.755 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; imagery; mythology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 1 November 2010@01:28:02.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-refs; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 1 November 2010@04:34:27.
David Whitehead on 22 August 2011@05:29:43.

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