Κρημνοί
cliffs, crags, precipices
Translated by Catharine Roth26 Jan 2001Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] prominent places.1
And Aristophanes calls Aeschylus kremnopoios, for using grand diction.2
And Aristophanes calls Aeschylus kremnopoios, for using grand diction.2
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κρημνοί· ἐξέχοντες τόποι. καὶ Κρημνοποιόν φησιν Ἀριστοφάνης τὸν Αἰσχύλον, ὡς μεγάλας λέξεις ποιοῦντα.
Betacode
*krhmnoi/: e)ce/xontes to/poi. kai\ *krhmnopoio/n fhsin *)aristofa/nhs to\n *ai)sxu/lon, w(s mega/las le/ceis poiou=nta.
Notes (2)
- 1LSJ entry for
krhmno/s (A) at web address 1. ↩ - 2Aristophanes, Clouds 1367 (web address 2), and scholia; cf. kappa 2387. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
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