Νηλιτής
nelites
Translated by Nick Nicholas23 Sep 2009Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a sinner.1
And there is also a feminine form of this, the Nelitides, in [the] Odyssey; from the masculinenhli/ths with barytone accent.2 And the second syllable from the start, namely li, is correspondingly spelled with an iota in this book. But the grammarians thought it should be spelled with an eta, and looking for a reason it should, claimed an change in Aeolic of iota to eta. Among other instances, this occurs in yimu/qion ["face pigment"], which in Aeolic [is] yhmu/qion .3
Interpretation of a dream: if you are holding spun [threads], expect sorrows.4
And there is also a feminine form of this, the Nelitides, in [the] Odyssey; from the masculine
Interpretation of a dream: if you are holding spun [threads], expect sorrows.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Νηλιτής· ὁ ἁμαρτωλός. τούτου ἐστὶ καὶ θηλυκὸν αἱ Νηλιτίδες ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ· ἐκ τοῦ νηλίτης βαρυτόνου ἀρσενικοῦ. καὶ ἔστι μὲν ἡ ἀπ' ἀρχῆς δευτέρα, ἤγουν ἡ λι συλλαβὴ ἀναλόγως ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τούτῳ διὰ τοῦ ι. οἱ δὲ Τεχνικοὶ διὰ τοῦ η εἰδότες αὐτὸ καὶ ζητοῦντες αἰτίαν, Αἰολικὴν αἰτιῶνται τροπὴν τοῦ ι εἰς η· ὃ πρὸς ἄλλοις καὶ ἐν τῷ ψιμύθιον, καὶ Αἰολικῶς ψημύθιον. λύσις ὀνείρου· νενησμένα κρατῶν δὲ προσδόκα λύπας.
Betacode
*nhlith/s: o( a(martwlo/s. tou/tou e)sti\ kai\ qhluko\n ai( *nhliti/des e)n *)odussei/a|: e)k tou= nhli/ths baruto/nou a)rsenikou=. kai\ e)/sti me\n h( a)p' a)rxh=s deute/ra, h)/goun h( li sullabh\ a)nalo/gws e)n tw=| bibli/w| tou/tw| dia\ tou= i. oi( de\ *texnikoi\ dia\ tou= h ei)do/tes au)to\ kai\ zhtou=ntes ai)ti/an, *ai)olikh\n ai)tiw=ntai troph\n tou= i ei)s h: o(\ pro\s a)/llois kai\ e)n tw=| yimu/qion, kai\ *ai)olikw=s yhmu/qion. lu/sis o)nei/rou: nenhsme/na kratw=n de\ prosdo/ka lu/pas.
Notes (4)
- 1cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 16.317 (see next note). ↩
- 2The accepted text has
nhlei/tides : Homer, Odyssey 16.317, 19.498, 22.418. From context, the sense is clearly "guileless" (the formula contrasts it with "those woman who are dishonourable"), but as LSJ s.v.nhlei=tis notes, Aristarchus assumednh- here was acting as an intensifier rather than a privative. (The scholia to 19.498 record both opinions.) The masculine forms, both oxytone and paroxytone, are hypothetical, from Herodian onwards. ↩ - 3Herodian,
peri\ paqw=n p. 363 Lentz. Similar commentary reproduced in Etymologicum Magnum and ps.-Zonaras s.v.nhlh/teis . ↩ - 4Unrelated to the rest of the entry. From Nicephorus I, Liber Onirocriticus II nu; already at kappa 1249. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 17 Jan 2016
- tweaks — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- supplied headword; x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Nick Nicholas