Ἐπ' ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων

on ocean's streams

Translated by Ioannis Doukas8 Sep 2007Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 22 words

Translation

Homer [sc. uses the phrase].1 Meaning as at ocean's streams. And elsewhere: "but come, shoot [an arrow] on Menelaus".2 Meaning at Menelaus.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐπ' ὠκεανοῖο ῥοάων· Ὅμηρος. ἀντὶ τοῦ ὡς ἐπ' ὠκεανοῦ ῥοάς. καὶ ἀλλαχόθι· ἀλλ' ἄγ' ὀΐστευσον Μενελάου. ὡς ἐπὶ τὸν Μενέλαον.

Betacode
*)ep' w)keanoi=o r(oa/wn: *(/omhros. a)nti\ tou= w(s e)p' w)keanou= r(oa/s. kai\ a)llaxo/qi: a)ll' a)/g' o)i/+steuson *menela/ou. w(s e)pi\ to\n *mene/laon. 

Notes (2)

  1. This entry (on the preposition e)pi/) draws on Aristonicus’ scholia to the Homeric quotations given. The syntax here is defined as an atticism (a partitive genitive used with a preposition which would normally take the accusative).
  2. 1Homer, Iliad 3.5 (web address 1). ↩
  3. 2Homer, Iliad 4.100 (web address 2). ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Oct 2012
  1. upgraded links — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. augmented note — Catharine Roth
  4. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Ioannis Doukas

Cite this entry

“on ocean's streams.” Suda On Line. Tr. Ioannis Doukas. 8 September 2007. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2834>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/epsilon/2834>.

Translation by Ioannis Doukas for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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