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Headword: Alea
Adler number: alpha,1105
Translated headword: warmth
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] heat, radiation.[1]
"[He] lit up a fire, so there would be both light and warmth at the same time for those present. For it was ice-cold".[2]
Greek Original:
Alea: thermê, ellampsis. pura de anekaieto, hôs hama men phôs, hama de alea pariousin êi. kruos gar ên.
Notes:
For the headword cf. under epsiloniota 111.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
Keywords: biography; definition; historiography; history
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 April 2000@11:25:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note; cosmetics) on 26 January 2001@09:29:44.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 23 February 2011@09:16:56.
David Whitehead on 27 February 2011@04:50:23.
David Whitehead on 3 February 2012@05:16:37.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 28 May 2015@10:55:34.

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