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Headword: *ai)qh\r
Adler number: alphaiota,122
Translated headword: ether, sky
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Homer [treats] ai)qh/r as feminine: "out of [the] bright sky."[1] And Pindar also: "through [the] desolate sky." [sc. He calls it 'desolate'] because being fiery it gives no nourishment.[2]
And elsewhere: "driving a chariot over the starry surface of the holy sky."[3]
Greek Original:
*ai)qh\r qhlukw=s *(/omhros: ai)qe/ros e)k di/hs. kai\ *pi/ndaros: frh/mas di' ai)qe/ros. dio/ti purw/dhs w)\n ou) tre/fei. kai\ au)=qis: a)steroeide/a nw=ta difreu/ous' ai)qe/ros i(era=s.
Notes:
cf. alphaiota 121 (with other cross-references there), and see generally LSJ s.v.
[1] Homer, Iliad 16.365.
[2] Pindar, Olympian 1.6 (10), with comment from the scholia there. (NB: "desolate", e)rh/mas, is the reading in manuscripts of Pindar, and appears correctly at theta 29; but in the present entry, which in turn generated phi 710, it has become corrupted into the nonsensical frh/mas.)
[3] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 1067 (Mnesiphilus quotes from the prologue of Euripides, Andromeda: fr.114 Nauck); cf. iota 531.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 August 2001@00:00:51.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes; cosmetics) on 25 August 2001@10:01:37.
David Whitehead (augmented note) on 29 August 2001@03:15:40.
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 14 May 2012@05:58:24.

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