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Βυσσόν · depth; ocean's depth (β 598) · Suda

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Near β598

β594hide-tanner
β595stuff-necked
β596flaxen
β597brooding, ruminating
β598depth; ocean's depth
δ1Daa
δ2Dabaina, Dabaena
δ3Dagisthaios, Dagisthaeus
δ4Dagon

Suda/Β beta/β598

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Βυσσόν

depth; ocean's depth

Translated by Alina Kelman14 May 2002Vetting: high5 revisions

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3 notes · 41 words

Translation

[Meaning] depth,¹ with oxytone accent [sc. accent on the last syllable]. But with barytone accent [sc. accent on the next-to-last syllable] it indicates dye [made] out of a murex-shell.²
Also [sc. attested is the nominative] busso/s, [meaning] ocean's depth, in Herodotus.³

Greek original · Adler’s text

Βυσσόν· βάθος, ὀξυτόνως. βαρυτόνως δὲ σημαίνει βαφὴν ἐκ πορφύρας. καὶ Βυσσός, βυθὸς, παρὰ Ἡροδότῳ.

Betacode

*busso/n: ba/qos, o)cuto/nws. baruto/nws de\ shmai/nei bafh\n e)k porfu/ras. kai\ *busso/s, buqo\s, para\ *(hrodo/tw|.

Notes (3)

cf. generally alpha 104.
1Likewise or similarly in other lexica. This primary headword is in the accusative case, evidently quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities begin with Homer (Iliad 24.80) and include Herodotus: see note below. ↩
2(For the difference of accentuation here see already under beta 597.) Perhaps metonymy for "a dyed robe"; see Aeschylus, Agamemnon 239, kro/kou bafa\s d' e)s pe/don xe/ousa , "Shedding to earth her saffron-dyed robe." (The usual meaning of bu/ssos is flax, and the linen made from it: cf. beta 596, and see generally LSJ s.v.) ↩
3From a gloss on Herodotus 2.28.4 (see also 2.96.5, 3.23.3); similarly in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon.

Linked from2 entries

α104Ἄβυσσονabyss[Meaning] that which not even a deep [buqo/s] can contain; but Ionians pronounce buqo/s as busso/s. From which also bussodomeu/ein ["to build in the deep"] appears to be said, from the verb du/nw ["I sink"] [meaning] I…
β597Βυσσοδομοῦντεςbrooding, ruminating[Meaning they] pondering deeply. Also [sc. attested is] bu/sswma ["flax-net"]. "Trapping the roundel of tunnies with flax-nets of well spun linen in the grayish approaches of the sea."

Neighbouring entries

β596Βύσσινονflaxen β597Βυσσοδομοῦντεςbrooding, ruminating β598Βυσσόνdepth; ocean's depth δ1ΔάαDaa δ2ΔαβαινίτηςDabaina, Dabaena

Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Jan 2016

15 Jan 2016tweaked translation — Catharine Roth
24 Sep 2015augmented notes — David Whitehead
4 Jun 2012another note; more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
16 May 2002augmented and modified notes; added keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
15 May 2002modified translation, added keyword — Catharine Roth
14 May 2002Translated — Alina Kelman

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Βυσσόν (Adler number beta 598), trans. Alina Kelman, 14 May 2002. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/beta/598

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