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Headword: *qrou=s
Adler number: theta,510
Translated headword: noise
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] sound, voice, inarticulate speech, uproar.[1]
"The crowd turned to noise, and they wailed."[2]
Homer says: "for there was no noise common of [= to] all".[3]
And elsewhere: "they heard a noise of the enemies, of the kind which might be made by an army just beginning to move".[4]
So a noise is brought about in this case too.
Greek Original:
*qrou=s: h)=xos, fwnh/, a)/shmos lalia/, qo/rubos. o( de\ o)/xlos ei)s qrou=n kaqi/stato, kai\ e)qrh/noun. *(/omhros de/ fhsin: ou) ga\r pa/ntwn h)=en o(mo\s qro/os. kai\ au)=qis: qrou=n tina h)/kousan tw=n polemi/wn, o(poi=os a)\n ge/noito a)/rti kinoume/nhs stratia=s. qrou=s ou)=n ka)ntau=qa d' e)ca/ptetai.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica (see the references to Photius, Lexicon theta233 Theodoridis); and cf. theta 509. See also Etymologicum Genuinum s.v. a)/qroos and Etymologicum Gudianum s.v. a)qroi/zw.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable (but for 'turned to noise' cf. Thucydides 5.29.2).
[3] Homer, Iliad 4.437 (web address 1): about the multilingual army of the Trojans.
[4] Quotation (if it is one) unidentifiable.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; epic; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Ioannis Doukas on 9 October 2007@19:00:30.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 10 October 2007@03:41:55.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 22 March 2011@11:16:04.
David Whitehead on 6 January 2013@09:45:56.
David Whitehead (coding) on 28 April 2016@06:21:27.
Catharine Roth (expanded notes) on 16 December 2018@19:38:21.

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