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Ἐσχάραι πυρός · embers of fire (ε 3245) · Suda

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Near ε3245

ε3241toppled
ε3242sacrificial hearth, eschar
ε3243grill
ε3244coals, hearths
ε3245embers of fire
ε3246of the hearth's fire
ε3247hearth-bread
ε3248evils ultimate of ultimates have been perpetrated
ε3249utmost evils

Suda/Ε epsilon/ε3245

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Ἐσχάραι πυρός

embers of fire

Translated by William Hutton29 Jan 2008Vetting: high5 revisions

daily life
definition
epic
food
imagery
poetry
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7 words

Translation

[Meaning] heaps of coals on the ground.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἐσχάραι πυρός· ἐπὶ ἐδάφους ἀνθρακιαί.

Betacode

*)esxa/rai puro/s: e)pi\ e)da/fous a)nqrakiai/.

Notes

= Synagoge epsilon879; Photius, Lexicon epsilon2043; and cf. Hesychius epsilon6447.
Theodoridis on Photius s.v. regards the headword phrase as quoted from Homer, Iliad 10.418, but if so, the lexica have reversed the word-order. For e)sxa/rai puro/s exactly, see Aeschylus, Eumenides 108 (dative singular), and Job 41:11 LXX.
cf. epsilon 3246 (and in a quite different context epsilon 3244); more generally epsilon 3242, epsilon 3243.

Linked from3 entries

ε3242Ἐσχάραsacrificial hearth, escharLycurgus and Ammonius say that an eschar is the name for the [altar] which has no height but is set into the ground, or hollow. By analogy doctors call shallow wounds in the body eschars.
ε3243Ἐσχάραgrill[Meaning a] cooking implement. In the Epigrams: "a many-holed sieve and a four-legged bridge of [= for] fire, a meat-holding grill."
ε3244Ἐσχάραιcoals, hearths[Meaning] the labia of the female genitals.

Neighbouring entries

ε3243Ἐσχάραgrill ε3244Ἐσχάραιcoals, hearths ε3245Ἐσχάραι πυρόςembers of fire ε3246Ἐσχαρίου πυρόςof the hearth's fire ε3247Ἐσχαρίτηνhearth-bread

Revision history5 revisions · last 2 Jan 2018

2 Jan 2018typo — Catharine Roth
18 Feb 2016coding — David Whitehead
2 Nov 2012expanded primary note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
29 Jan 2008augmented note — William Hutton
29 Jan 2008another keyword; x-refs — David Whitehead
29 Jan 2008Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

Suda On Line, s.v. Ἐσχάραι πυρός (Adler number epsilon 3245), trans. William Hutton, 29 Jan 2008. https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/epsilon/3245

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