Κυκλήσωμεν
let us wheel
Translated by William Hutton27 Mar 2008Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] let us hitch up.1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Κυκλήσωμεν· ἀναζεύξωμεν.
Betacode
*kuklh/swmen: a)nazeu/cwmen.
Notes (1)
- Same entry elsewhere (see the references at Photius kappa1179 Theodoridis, and below), though these other lexica exhibit the epic short-vowel subjunctive with omicron, in both the headword and the gloss (
kuklh/somen ,a)nazeu/comen ), as is appropriate for the probable source of this and other commentary: Homer, Iliad 7.332 (web address 1). Here we have the more common aorist subjunctive forms in omega, which would have been homophonous in late Greek. See also n.1 below. - 1This gloss is problematic since little common ground exists between this verb,
a)nazeu/gnumi and the headword, particularly not in ways that are appropriate for the Homeric context, where the object of the headword isnekrou/s ('corpses'). Perhaps the gloss arises from the reflection that 'wheeling' corpses would involve 'hitching' dray animals to wagons. It may also come from a misreading of a different verb,a)na/comen ('take back'), that is often used as a gloss for the headword in other sources (e.g. Hesychius kappa4472, cf. Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (105.2), Hesychius kappa4464, Etymologicum Magnum 544.25). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 12 Apr 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — William Hutton