Βορᾶς
of food, of prey
Translated by Catharine Roth17 Dec 2001Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] of food or nourishment.1 But Borras [is] the wind,2 and it is declined Borra [in the genitive]; the nominative plural [is] Borrai.
"Harsh north winds blowing."3
Also [sc. the declension occurs] Boreas, Boreou.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]*Borrai/h| ["northerly"]. "Broken by a northerly storm it fell(?)."4
They consider Boreas to be an ally of [the] Athenians. And see the place where the army of Xerxes suffered misfortune, under Aphetai.5
"Harsh north winds blowing."3
Also [sc. the declension occurs] Boreas, Boreou.
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
They consider Boreas to be an ally of [the] Athenians. And see the place where the army of Xerxes suffered misfortune, under Aphetai.5
Greek original · Adler’s text
Βορᾶς· βρώσεως ἢ τροφῆς. Βορρᾶς δὲ ὁ ἄνεμος, καὶ κλίνεται Βορρᾶ· ἡ εὐθεῖα τῶν πληθυντικῶν Βορραῖ. σκληροὶ Βορραῖ ἐπιπνεύσαντες. καὶ Βορέας, Βορέου. καὶ Βορραίῃ. λαίλαπι Βορραίῃ κλασθὲν ἐπέλεκε. ὅτι τὸν Βορέαν Ἀθηναίων σύμμαχον εἶναι νομίζουσι· καὶ ζήτει τὸν τόπον, ἔνθα ὁ στόλος Ξέρξου ἐδυστύχησεν, ἐν τῷ ἀφέται.
Betacode
*bora=s: brw/sews h)\ trofh=s. *borra=s de\ o( a)/nemos, kai\ kli/netai *borra=: h( eu)qei=a tw=n plhquntikw=n *borrai=. sklhroi\ *borrai= e)pipneu/santes. kai\ *bore/as, *bore/ou. kai\ *borrai/h|. lai/lapi *borrai/h| klasqe\n e)pe/leke. o(/ti to\n *bore/an *)aqhnai/wn su/mmaxon ei)=nai nomi/zousi: kai\ zh/tei to\n to/pon, e)/nqa o( sto/los *ce/rcou e)dustu/xhsen, e)n tw=| a)fe/tai.
Notes (4)
- [1] The headword is genitive singular of↩
bora/ (LSJ entry at web address 1). Same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.- 2Boreas or (Attic) Borras: LSJ entry at web address 2. ↩
- 3Arrian, Anabasis 1.26.2. ↩
- 4Greek Anthology 6.245.2 (Diodorus), the sailor Diogenes's dedication of a promised object to one of the Kabeiroi (cf. kappa 6) during a storm at sea; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 234-235; and vol. II, 267-268) and further extracts from this epigram at alpha 664, alpha 1108, lambda 183, and lambda 733. The last word of the quotation -- the imperfect indicative active, third person singular form of
peleke/w , the Byzantine spelling ofpeleka/w , I hew, shape with an axe, cf. Trapp s.v.peleke/w -- is not in the epigram; lambda 183 is closer, though still not quite right. ↩- 5alpha 4591.
References
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
E. Trapp, Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität, Faszikel 6, (Wien, 2007)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
E. Trapp, Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität, Faszikel 6, (Wien, 2007)
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- α664Ἀήτηςgale[Meaning] the wind. And just as h(gh/sw ["I will lead"] [is cognate with the noun] h(ghth/s ["leader"]; [and] poih/sw ["I will create"] [with] poihth/s ["creator"]; so it was necessary [to postulate the sequence] a)/w…
- α1108Ἀλέγοιςmight you have a care for[sc. Meaning] might you succour, might you aid. "Might you also have a care for the man with respect to poverty". *)ale/gw also means I do not care. And Homer [writes]: "I do not care, as if a woman were hitting me."
- α4591ἈφέταιAphetai, AphetaeA place in Athens where the expedition of Xerxes had its first setback because of the unsuitability of the harbors. For this reason they consider Boreas to be an ally of the Athenians. The god had prophesied that they…
- β395ΒορραῖBorrai, north windsSee above under "Borras".
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Revision history4 revisions · last 1 Dec 2018
- expanded n.4, added bibliography, added cross-references, added keyword — Ronald Allen
- another keyword — David Whitehead
- expanded n.1; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth