Ἀχανὲς πέλαγος
yawning sea
Translated by Jennifer Benedict8 Jun 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
['Yawning sea'] and [sc. yawning] plain: that which is gaping wide open. "Impassable swamps enveloped [them], and moreover a yawning expanse of plain with no way out, on which more tamarisk shrubs than trees had been planted, and the denseness of the wood [was] most formidable."1
Also [sc. attested is the plural]a)xanei=s , [meaning] unclear, unlit.
Also [sc. attested is]a)xanh/s , [meaning] the man not [speaking] with his mouth open, and voiceless, the mute, the man afflicted with silence.
Also [sc. attested is the plural]
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Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀχανὲς πέλαγος καὶ πεδίον· τὸ ἐπιπολὺ κεχηνός. τέλματα δύσπορα διαδέχεται, καὶ ἐπὶ τούτοις ἀχανὲς καὶ ἀνέξοδον πεδίου βάθος, ἐν ᾧ μυρίκαι τε δένδρων μείζους ἐπεπήγεσαν, καὶ τὸ συνεχὲς τῆς ὕλης φοβερώτατον. καὶ Ἀχανεῖς, ἀφανεῖς, ἀφεγγεῖς. καὶ Ἀχανής, ὁ μὴ κεχηνὼς, καὶ ἄφωνος, ὁ ἐνεὸς, ὁ ἐκπεπληγμένος σιωπῇ.