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Headword:
*lai=lay
Adler number: lambda,183
Translated headword: storm
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] rain with winds, and darkness.[1]
"He, like some maritime storm or a violent thunderbolt, suddenly pounced [...]."[2]
And elsewhere: "the boreal northwind, bearing down with a gust, broke the yard-arm".[3] ['Boreal' means stemming] out of Boreas.[4]
Also [sc. attested] in the feminine gender. "And a terrible storm falling".[5]
Greek Original:*lai=lay: met' a)ne/mwn o)/mbros, kai\ sko/tos. o( de\ oi(=a/ tis lai=lay e)piqala/ttios h)\ r(agdai=os skhpto\s e)capinai/ws e)pefoi/thse. kai\ au)=qis: lai/lapi borrai/h| klasqe\n e)pei=de ke/ras. th=| e)k tou= borra=. kai\ qhlukw=s. lai/lay e)peispesou=sa deinh/.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica (and several Homeric
scholia); see the references at
Photius lambda29 Theodoridis.
[2] A lightly truncated account of a general's attack on the Persian army from Theophylact Simocatta,
Historiae 2.7.1; again at
sigma 581.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.245.2, attributed to
Diodorus, already (approximately) at
beta 390. The epigram is a dedication, by the sailor
Diogenes, of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf.
kappa 6) during a storm at sea; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 234-235; and vol. II, 267-268) and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 664,
alpha 1108, and
lambda 733.
[4] See generally
beta 390.
[5] Quotation unidentifiable. (Adler suggests Symeon Metaphrastes.) The noun
lai/lay is normally (not exceptionally) feminine; perhaps the lexicographer was misled by the two-termination adjective
e)piqala/ttios 'maritime' earlier in the entry.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
Keywords: biography; Christianity; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; poetry; religion
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 21 January 2006@23:10:23.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics, keywords, status) on 22 January 2006@01:37:01.
David Whitehead (modified n.1; cosmetics) on 22 January 2006@04:21:32.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; another keyword) on 24 January 2010@04:32:00.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 4 April 2013@04:31:32.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.3, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 1 December 2018@16:03:26.
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