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Headword: *po/ntos
Adler number: pi,2049
Translated headword: Pontus, Pontos, Black Sea, sea
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Properly the [sc. sea] of this name between the Chersonnese and the Euxine, but by misuse of language the entire sea.[1]
[There is] also a proverb, 'a Pontus of benefits', in reference to benefits numerous and large; as if a sea of benefits.[2] Aristophanes [writes]: '[o] Pontoposeidon'; meaning o greatest Poseidon. Metaphorically from the sea.[3]
Greek Original:
*po/ntos: kuri/ws me\n o( e)/ndon th=s *xerronh/sou kai\ *eu)cei/nou kalou/menos, kataxrhstikw=s de\ pa=sa h( qa/lassa. kai\ paroimi/a. *po/ntos a)gaqw=n, e)pi\ tw=n pollw=n a)gaqw=n kai\ mega/lwn: w(/sper a)gaqw=n qa/lassa. *)aristofa/nhs: *pontopo/seidon. a)nti\ tou= me/giste *po/seidon. a)po\ tou= po/ntou metaforikw=s.
Notes:
cf. pi 2048.
[1] Likewise in Photius and other lexica. But both parts of the entry are unsatisfactory. Its first part--if, as seems probable, 'the Chersonnese' is the Thracian rather than the Tauric Chersonnese (see OCD4 Chersonnesus 1 and 2)--appears to be describing the Propontis, a meaning unattested elsewhere. And its second part--where 'the entire sea' might, but probably does not, mean 'the entire *Black* Sea'; cf. epsilon 3606; and generally OCD4 under Euxine Sea--is incorrect as stated: the general sense is primary.
[2] cf. generically alpha 123, delta 91.
[3] Aristophanes, Wealth [Plutus] 1050 (web address 1), with comment from the scholia there.
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Keywords: comedy; daily life; definition; ethics; geography; imagery; proverbs; religion
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 October 2002@03:54:46.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics, link, status) on 1 August 2004@16:53:21.
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David Whitehead (modified tr; augmented notes) on 2 August 2004@03:27:20.
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