Ὠκεάνειον ῥεῦμα
Oceanic stream
Translated by Stacie Raucci15 May 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠκεάνειον ῥεῦμα· τὸ τοῦ ὠκεανοῦ. ὃν δὴ ἐκπλεῦσαι οὐκ ἔνι, βραχώδη καὶ σκοτοειδῆ τυγχάνοντα.
Betacode
*)wkea/neion r(eu=ma: to\ tou= w)keanou=. o(\n dh\ e)kpleu=sai ou)k e)/ni, braxw/dh kai\ skotoeidh= tugxa/nonta.
Notes (2)
- cf. omega 43.
- 1The headword phrase (also in ps.-Herodian) is presumably quoted from somewhere, or based on such a quotation. ↩
- 2Loosely quoted from gamma 7. (The changes are reflected in the translation given above, but note that this entry's
dh\ e)kpleu=sai ), "of course...to sail out of", should actually bediekpleu=sai "to sail through," sc. the Strait of Gibraltar.) ↩
Linked from3 entries
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- ο665ὈρχάδεςOrchades, Orkades, Orkneys[The names of certain] islands near Ocean.
- ω43ὨκεανόςOkeanos, Ocean[Meaning] the sea in a circle around all the earth. From the [verb] ke/w, I split, [comes] keano/s, and with the alpha privative and a change of alpha to omega [it becomes] w)keano/s; "out of which all rivers and every…
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Revision history6 revisions · last 19 Dec 2013
- deleted link — Catharine Roth
- another note — David Whitehead
- Tweaked the translation; added weblink to LSJ-Perseus. — Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou
- cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- modified translation and notes; added keyword — David Whitehead
- Translated — Stacie Raucci