Ὠκύαλος ναῦς
swift-sailing ship, sea-swift ship
Translated by Edward Dandrow16 Apr 2000Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the quick [sort].
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὠκύαλος ναῦς· ἡ ταχεῖα.
Betacode
*)wku/alos nau=s: h( taxei=a.
Notes
- From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 15.704-5, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1). Compare also Homer, Odyssey 12.182, 15.473; Sophocles, Ajax 710; Moschus 2.60. Same glossing in ps.-Herodian and, according to Adler, the Ambrosian Lexicon; similar in Hesychius.
Although the adjectivew)ku/alos strictly means "sea-swift, speeding over the sea" (if-alos is froma(/ls : see LSJ s.v., web address 2), later writers could apply it to swiftness or violence in other contexts: so Oppian, Halieutica 2.535, and already Pindar, Parthenia 2.19.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 12 Sep 2023
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes, modified link, added keyword, raised status — Catharine Roth
- rearranged headword, translation, note; added keyword — David Whitehead
- Revised — Helma Dik
- Revised — Helma Dik
- Translated — Edward Dandrow