Λᾶας

rock

Translated by Catharine Roth30 Oct 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

4 notes · 36 words
[Meaning] stone.1
And [sc. also attested is the genitive] la/ou, [meaning] of [a] stone. From the nominative la=os, produced from the genitive la=os.2 "By a rock's force."3 "Moving sideways, and crouching low on a rock's edge."4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Λᾶας· λίθος. καὶ Λάου, λίθου. ἀπὸ τῆς λᾶος εὐθείας, γενομένης ἀπὸ γενικῆς τῆς λᾶος. λᾶος ὑπαὶ ῥιπῆς. λέχριός γ' ἔπ' ἄκρου λάου βραχὺς ὀκλάσας.

Betacode
*la=as: li/qos. kai\ *la/ou, li/qou. a)po\ th=s la=os eu)qei/as, genome/nhs a)po\ genikh=s th=s la=os. la=os u(pai\ r(iph=s. le/xrio/s g' e)/p' a)/krou la/ou braxu\s o)kla/sas.

Notes (4)

  1. 1So already at lambda 1. ↩
  2. 2The epic genitive of la=as is indeed la=os, as in the Iliad verse quoted here; la/ou occurs in the passage of Sophocles quoted below. See LSJ s.v. ↩
  3. 3Homer, Iliad 12.462 (web address 1). ↩
  4. 4Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 195-6, translated by R.C. Jebb (web address 2). ↩

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  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. upgraded links — Catharine Roth
  3. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
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