Μένεα πνείων

breathing spirit

Translated by David Whitehead8 Jan 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

[Meaning one who is] capable of great things.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μένεα πνείων· μεγάλα δυνάμενος.

Betacode

*me/nea pnei/wn: mega/la duna/menos.

The headword phrase is here in the singular; in the plural it occurs in Homer, Iliad 2.536, 3.8 and 11.508. For the gloss cf. the scholia to the first of these passages.

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