Νήεον ὕλην
they were heaping wood
Translated by Catharine Roth23 Aug 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νήεον ὕλην· ἐσώρευον ὕλην. καὶ νηήσας, σωρεύσας.
Betacode
*nh/eon u(/lhn: e)sw/reuon u(/lhn. kai\ nhh/sas, swreu/sas.
Notes (2)
- Likewise or similarly elsewhere: see the references at Photius nu179 Theodoridis.
- 1The headword includes an unaugmented third person plural, imperfect, of
nhe/w (cf. nu 179, nu 340, nu 527). The phrase as whole comes from Homer, Iliad 23.139, where the headword phrase occurs (building a pyre for Patroclus: web address 1); cf. the scholia there. ↩ - 2Aorist participle of the same verb (masculine nominative singular); extracted from Homer, Iliad 9.358 (where it is used of loading ships: web address 2). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from3 entries
- ν179Νενημένηνheaped-up[nenhme/nhn] and nenhsme/nhn: [meaning] piled-up. Xenophon [writes]: "for you would find in the houses stores of last years' loaves heaped-up." And Aristophanes [writes]: "why are you sitting in a stupor, behaving like…
- ν340Νῆσαιto heap up[Meaning] to pile up. Also [sc. attested is] nh/sousi ["they will heap up"], [meaning] they will pile up. There is also [the aorist infinitive] nhh=sai with three syllables.
- ν527ΝῶI heap up, I swim, I flow, I spinA verb, of which the[se] inflections are in use. [(A) The verb] nw=, [meaning] I pile up; out of which [comes] nh=sai, to pile up. Also nhdu/s ["stomach, womb"], [that] into which nourishment is piled up. [(B) The verb]…
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