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Headword: Tuphôn
Adler number: tau,1223
Translated headword: Typhon, typhoon
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Not the fire which comes from the air, but a twisting from the rising vapors before being burned up: so Plato [uses the word] in Phaedrus.
Greek Original:
Tuphôn: ouch hê phlox hê ek tou aeros, all' ek tês anathumiaseôs sustrophê pro tou ekpurôthênai: hôs Platôn en Phaidrôi.
Note:
From Timaeus, Platonic Lexicon; cf. tau 1227. Other references at Photius, Lexicon tau586 Theodoridis.
Keywords: definition; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2014@01:27:21.
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Catharine Roth on 16 February 2014@01:31:32.
David Whitehead (expanded note; raised status) on 16 February 2014@04:43:48.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 27 December 2014@23:46:18.
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