Skip to content

Search the Suda

Browse Topics Random About

After Suda On Line, the collaborative English translation of the Suda. Texts are © their translators and SOL, licensed CC BY-NC-SA. A non-commercial project.

About & credits Browse Topics Original SOL

⌕Search ΑLetters ⤨Random

Keyboard shortcuts

j: Next entry
k: Previous entry
g: Toggle Greek
/: Search
?: Show shortcuts

Ἀστραπή · lightning (α 4252) · Suda

Letters

Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Near α4252

α4248mule, mule's saddle
α4249stars
α4250knucklebone, astragal
α4251Astrampsychos, Astrampsykhos, Astrampsychus
α4252lightning
α4253I gleam, I lighten, I shine
α4254non-campaigning
α4255(?)knucklebones
α4256astrobakos

Suda/Α alpha/α4252

← Previous entry,α4251 Next entry,α4253 →

Ἀστραπή

lightning

Translated by Jennifer Benedict6 Jan 2002Vetting: high8 revisions

daily life
definition
philosophy
proverbs
science and technology

1 note · 44 words

Translation

[Meaning a] kindling of clouds being rubbed together or broken by a wind.¹
And [there is] a proverb: "lightning out of a little vat"; in reference to to nothingness. Inasmuch as flashings in no way are able [to come] out of springs and vats.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀστραπή· ἔξαψις νεφῶν παρατριβομένων ἢ ῥηγνυμένων ὑπὸ πνεύματος. καὶ παροιμία· Ἀστραπὴ ἐκ πυελίου· ἐπὶ τῆς οὐθενείας. παρόσον οὐδὲν δύνανται αἱ ἐκ τῶν κρηνῶν καὶ πυέλων μαρμαρυγαί.

Betacode

*)astraph/: e)/cayis nefw=n paratribome/nwn h)\ r(hgnume/nwn u(po\ pneu/matos. kai\ paroimi/a: *)astraph\ e)k pueli/ou: e)pi\ th=s ou)qenei/as. paro/son ou)de\n du/nantai ai( e)k tw=n krhnw=n kai\ pue/lwn marmarugai/.

Notes (1)

[1] A Stoic definition from Diogenes Laertius 7.153; cf. kappa 1377.
2cf. Diogenianus 3.7 and other paroemiographers.

Linked from1 entry

α4253ἈστράπτωI gleam, I lighten, I shine[Used] with a dative.

Neighbouring entries

α4250Ἀστράγαλοςknucklebone, astragal α4251ἈστράμψυχοςAstrampsychos, Astrampsykhos, Astrampsychus α4252Ἀστραπήlightning α4253ἈστράπτωI gleam, I lighten, I shine α4254Ἀστρατείαnon-campaigning

Revision history8 revisions · last 2 Sep 2015

2 Sep 2015 — David Whitehead
26 Apr 2012tweaking — David Whitehead
25 Jul 2008added cross-reference — Catharine Roth
26 Aug 2002added note — David Whitehead
7 Jan 2002added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
6 Jan 2002cosmetics, added keyword — Catharine Roth
—
—
6 Jan 2002Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἀστραπή (Adler number alpha 4252), trans. Jennifer Benedict, 6 Jan 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/4252

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, , licensed CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Original on SOL ↗