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Ἐρεβεινός · Erebos-like, Erebus-like (ε 2917) · Suda

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Near ε2917

ε2913might do, might perform
ε2914eraia, wool-decorated branch
ε2915scattered, sprinkled
ε2916go (to hell)
ε2917Erebos-like, Erebus-like
ε2918Erebesaeans' city
ε2919chickpea, garbanzo
ε2920chickpea Dionysus
ε2921groping about in Erebos, groping about in the murk

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε2917

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Ἐρεβεινός

Erebos-like, Erebus-like

Translated by David Whitehead5 Nov 2006Vetting: high4 revisions

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Translation

[Meaning] dark. Also [sc. attested is] Erebos/Erebus, [meaning] darkness.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐρεβεινός· ὁ σκοτεινός. καὶ Ἔρεβος, τὸ σκότος.

Betacode

*)erebeino/s: o( skoteino/s. kai\ *)/erebos, to\ sko/tos.

Notes

Erebos (for which see also under epsilon 2921, iota 457, chi 84, omega 220) was 'a place of nether darkness, forming a passage from Earth to Hades' (LSJ s.v.).
The cognate adjective Erebos-like appears in the form e)rebenno/s, with Aeolic treatment of *-sn-, in Homer and Hesiod; the Ionic form e)rebeino/s, as here, is confined to lexicography.
See also epsilon 2921.

Linked from1 entry

ε2921Ἐρεβοδιφοῦντεςgroping about in Erebos, groping about in the murk[Meaning they] feeling around in darkness. "The Romans finished groping about in the murk on their underground [tunnels]." Also [sc. attested is] e)rebodifw=si ["they grope about in Erebos"], [meaning] they search after…

Neighbouring entries

ε2915Ἔραινενscattered, sprinkled ε2916Ἔρρεgo (to hell)ε2917ἘρεβεινόςErebos-like, Erebus-like ε2918Ἐρεβησαίων πόλιςErebesaeans' city ε2919Ἐρέβινθοςchickpea, garbanzo

Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Oct 2012

25 Oct 2012Revised — David Whitehead
2 Jun 2011another x-ref — David Whitehead
6 Nov 2006more x-refs — David Whitehead
6 Nov 2006augmented note, set status — Catharine Roth
5 Nov 2006Translated — David Whitehead

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐρεβεινός (Adler number epsilon 2917), trans. David Whitehead, 5 Nov 2006. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/2917

Translation by David Whitehead 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 ↗