Suda On Line
Search
|
Search results for delta,1376 in Adler number:
Headword:
*dora/
Adler number: delta,1376
Translated headword: hide
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the skin.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'hide of donkeys'.
Empedocles[2] was called Kolusanemas ["wind-restrainer"][3] because when a strong wind was oppressing
Akragas[4] he surrounded the city with the hides of donkeys.
*dora/: to\ de/rma. kai\ *dora\ o)/nwn. o(/ti *)empedoklh=s *kwlusane/mas e)peklh/qh dia\ to\ a)ne/mou pollou= e)piqeme/nou th=| *)akra/ganti e)cela/sai au)to\n dora\s o)/nwn periqe/nta th=| po/lei.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Hesychius and other lexica.
[2] What follows comes from
epsilon 1002; see also
alpha 1671.
[3] Formed from the verb
kwlu/w (I hinder) and the noun
a)/nemos (wind); cf.
alpha 3242,
kappa 2249.
[4] A Greek city in
Sicily, present-day Agrigento; cf.
alpha 1026,
alpha 1671,
alpha 1812,
epsilon 1002,
epsilon 2201,
epsilon 2918,
iota 200,
kappa 2161,
pi 817,
tau 272,
phi 43.
Kingsley, P. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles and Pythagorean Tradition. Oxford/New York, 1995
Riedweg, C. "Orphisches bei Empedocles" Antike und Abendland 4x (1995) 34-59
Inwood, B. The Poem of Empedocles. A Text and Translation with an Introduction. Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 1992
Wright, M. R., Empedocles: The Extant Fragments. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1981
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; history; military affairs; philosophy; religion; zoology
Translated by: Konstantinos Kopanias on 23 March 2005@04:02:24.
Vetted by:
No. of records found: 1
Page 1
End of search