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Headword: *porfu/rh|
Adler number: pi,2097
Translated headword: heaves, surges, swells
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] is disturbed.[1]
And in the Fables: "and as he was fretting over each thing distinctly [...]."[2]
Greek Original:
*porfu/rh|: tara/sshtai. kai\ e)n *muqikoi=s: kai\ oi( porfu/ronti diakrido\n a)mfi\s e(/kasta.
Notes:
The headword illustrates the literal sense of the verb porfu/rw (here in the present subjunctive), the supplementary quotation a figurative one; for both see LSJ s.v.
[1] Used literally of the sea, as at Homer, Iliad 14.16 (see web address 1). The gloss comes from a scholion on this verse; see also Apollonius the Sophist, Homeric Lexicon 133.32, and other lexica cited at Photius pi1109 Theodoridis.
[2] A hexameter verse of unknown origin: see LSJ s.v. I.2. (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 September 2001@01:02:44.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 1 September 2002@05:35:44.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keyword; tweaks) on 10 April 2009@08:11:43.
David Whitehead on 26 October 2011@08:24:27.
David Whitehead on 10 October 2013@08:39:47.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 25 May 2014@00:28:29.
Catharine Roth (expanded note) on 15 October 2021@00:48:49.

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