Ἀκροκελαινιόων

growing black at the top

Translated by Jennifer Benedict5 Mar 2000Vetting: high7 revisions

7 words

[Meaning] blackening the top of the wave.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀκροκελαινιόων· τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ κύματος μελαίνων.

Betacode

*)akrokelainio/wn: to\ a)/kron tou= ku/matos melai/nwn.

Likewise, according to Adler, in the Ambrosian Lexicon. From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 21.249, where the headword -- present participle, masculine nominative singular, of a)krokelainia/w -- occurs (of the river-god Scamander in his duel with Achilles).