Νήδυμος
sweet
Translated by Catharine Roth20 Jan 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[A description of] pleasant and sweet sleep.
Or [sleep] which is deep and from which one cannot escape; from the privativenh and the verb du/w .
Or [sleep] which is deep and from which one cannot escape; from the privative
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νήδυμος· ὁ ἡδὺς καὶ γλυκὺς ὕπνος. ἢ ὁ βαθὺς καὶ ἀνέκδυτος· παρὰ τὸ νη στερητικὸν καὶ τὸ δύω ῥῆμα.
Betacode
*nh/dumos: o( h(du\s kai\ gluku\s u(/pnos. h)\ o( baqu\s kai\ a)ne/kdutos: para\ to\ nh sterhtiko\n kai\ to\ du/w r(h=ma.
Notes
- Epic epithet of sleep =
h(/dumos , from which it arises through false division in the Homeric text (see LSJ s.v., web address 1). For the glosses here cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.2. See R. Führer on the possibilities of etymology and meaning, with full bibliography. On the privativenh , see nu 295.
References
R. Führer in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos 3.353-54
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 3 Nov 2020
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- added LfgrE reference — Robert Dyer
- augmented note — Catharine Roth
- modified translation — Catharine Roth
- augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth