Νήϊα

ship-timbers

Translated by Catharine Roth20 Jan 2003Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 20 words

[Meaning] timbers used for building ships.¹
Also [sc. attested is] Neion, a mountain of Ithaca, the one also [called] Hyponeion.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νήϊα· τὰ ναυπηγήσιμα ξύλα. καὶ Νήϊον, ὄρος Ἰθάκης, τὸ καὶ Ὑπονήϊον.

Betacode

*nh/i+a: ta\ nauphgh/sima cu/la. kai\ *nh/i+on, o)/ros *)iqa/khs, to\ kai\ *(uponh/i+on.

1cf. the scholia to Homer, Iliad 3.62, where the neuter headword occurs in the singular. ↩
2Homer, Odyssey 1.186. The adjective u(ponh/i+os at Odyssey 3.81 means "lying under Mt. Neion". ↩

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