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Headword: *stento/reios fwnh/
Adler number: sigma,1042
Translated headword: Stentorian voice
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
That of Stentor.
Greek Original:
*stento/reios fwnh/: h( tou= *ste/ntoros.
Notes:
Stentor is the Homeric herald with the proverbially loud, "brazen" voice, equivalent to that of fifty ordinary men: Homer, Iliad 5.785-6 (web address 1); OCD4 s.v.
The present headword phrase is presumably quoted from somewhere. (Its only actual attestation outside the Suda occurs, in the accusative case, in the thirteenth-century Byzantine historian Georgius Acropolites.) In any event it makes explicit what is left implicit in a famous passage in Aristotle (Politics 7.1326b7: web address 2). Expressing there his insistence that a polis should not be too large, Aristotle rhetorically asks who could be its herald if he was "not Stentorian" (mh\ *stento/reios).
See also e.g. Lucian, de luctu 15.
Associated internet addresses:
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Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; imagery; medicine; philosophy; politics; proverbs
Translated by: David Whitehead on 24 June 2001@09:07:17.
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