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Headword:
*xa/os
Adler number: chi,83
Translated headword: chaos, space
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Also the air, in
Aristophanes in
Birds: "you shall not grant passage to the smell of the [sc. burning sacrificial] thighs through your foreign city and the space."[1]
Also [sc. attested in the phrase] "even Zeus is older than Chaos", in reference to very ancient things.[2]
And
Ibycus [writes]: "he flies about in someone else's space."[3]
And elsewhere: "he fools around and spouts nonsense at us in vain, that even Zeus lived earlier than chaos."[4]
*xa/os: kai\ o( a)h/r, par' *)aristofa/nei e)n *)/ornisi: dia\ th=s po/lews th=s a)llotri/as kai\ tou= xa/ous tw=n mhri/wn th\n kni/ssan ou) diafrh/sete. kai\ *xa/ous a)rxaio/teros kai\ *kroni/wn, e)pi\ tw=n pa/nu palaiw=n. kai\ *)/ibukos: pota=tai d' e)n a)llotri/w| xa/ei. kai\ au)=qis: o( de\ fluarei= kai\ ma/thn h(mw=n lh=ron kataxei=, tou= xa/ous a)rxaio/teron kai\ *kroni/wn a)po/zonta.
Notes:
For this (unglossed) headword see again
chi 84.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 192-3 (web address 1 below), with scholion; cf.
omega 242.
[2] cf. below, at n.4.
[3]
Ibycus fr.223b (in Page, PMG Suppl.).
[4]
Aelian fr. 338 Domingo-Forasté (341 Hercher -- but attributed by Bernhardy to the emperor Julian).
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 September 2000@03:50:12.
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