Μισγάγκεια

watersmeet

Translated by David Whitehead29 Jun 2009Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 22 words

[Meaning] a hollow place, into which the waters brought down from many mountains mix.¹
The hollow place is likewise called a cuna/gkeia.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μισγάγκεια· τόπος κοῖλος, εἰς ὃν τὰ καταφερόμενα μίσγεται ἀπὸ πλειόνων ὀρῶν ὕδατα. ξυνάγκεια δὲ λέγεται ὡσαύτως ὁ κοῖλος τόπος.

Betacode

*misga/gkeia: to/pos koi=los, ei)s o(\n ta\ katafero/mena mi/sgetai a)po\ pleio/nwn o)rw=n u(/data. cuna/gkeia de\ le/getai w(sau/tws o( koi=los to/pos.

Notes (2)

For this noun used figuratively see under epsilon 3650.
1= Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon (113.4), Synagoge mu230 (with the corrupt reading poiki/los "variegated" for koi=los "hollow"), Photius mu467 Theodoridis (same error); cf. Hesychius mu1440, mu1443. From commentary on Homer, Iliad 4.453, where the accusative case of this noun occurs; cf. the scholia ad loc. ↩
2See xi 112, sigma 1421. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 16 Feb 2014

16 Feb 2014cross-reference — Catharine Roth
23 May 2013tweaking — David Whitehead
29 Jun 2009another note — David Whitehead
29 Jun 2009augmented notes, added keyword, raised status — William Hutton
29 Jun 2009Translated — David Whitehead