Μετεωρολέσχαι

chatterers about the stars, star-gazers

Translated by Catharine Roth23 Jan 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

8 words

[Meaning those who are] talking nonsense about heaven.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μετεωρολέσχαι· περὶ οὐρανοῦ φλυαροῦντες.

Betacode

*metewrole/sxai: peri\ ou)ranou= fluarou=ntes.

Notes

The headword occurs (in the accusative case) in Plato, Republic 489C, and this is the gloss of ancient commentators on that passage (inc. Timaeus' Platonic Lexicon and Photius mu352 Theodoridis). See also sigma 814.
cf. generally mu 768.

Linked from1 entry

μ768Μετεωροκοπεῖςyou are chattering about lofty things[Meaning] you are flying high, and you are working aimlessly and as it chanced. Properly metewrokopei=n is to strike the sea uselessly with the flat of the oar. And in Clouds [he calls] the philosophers metewrole/sxoi,…

Neighbouring entries

μ767Μετεωρισμόςbeing raised up μ768Μετεωροκοπεῖςyou are chattering about lofty things μ769Μετεωρολέσχαιchatterers about the stars, star-gazers μ770Μετέωρονraised up, lofty; agitated μ771Μετεωροπολῶνbusying [himself] with high things

Revision history3 revisions · last 22 Dec 2014

22 Dec 2014coding — Catharine Roth
19 May 2013Revised — David Whitehead
24 Jan 2006another headword; augmented and modified note; added a keyword — David Whitehead
23 Jan 2006Translated — Catharine Roth