Κυκλήσωμεν

let us wheel

Translated by William Hutton27 Mar 2008Vetting: high3 revisions

1 note · 5 words

Translation

[Meaning] let us hitch up.1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κυκλήσωμεν· ἀναζεύξωμεν.

Betacode
*kuklh/swmen: a)nazeu/cwmen. 

Notes (1)

  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.
  2. 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 is nekrou/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). ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 12 Apr 2015
  1. coding — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — William Hutton

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