Ὄνειαρ

dream

Translated by Catharine Roth23 Dec 2009Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 44 words

[o)/neiar means the same as] o)/neiron.¹
"Ah great famous dream of the wise son of Battos: verily you were of horn and not of ivory." Instead of [using the word a)lhqh/s] 'true'; from the Homeric [saying], "for there are two gates of fleeting dreams."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὄνειαρ· ὄνειρον. ἆ μέγα Βαττιάδαο σοφοῦ περίπυστον ὄνειαρ· ἦ ῥ' ἐτεὸν κεράων, οὐδ' ἐλέφαντος ἔης. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀληθής· παρὰ τὸ Ὁμηρικόν· δοιαὶ γάρ τε πύλαι ἀμενηνῶν εἰσιν ὀνείρων.

Betacode

*)/oneiar: o)/neiron. a)= me/ga *battia/dao sofou= peri/puston o)/neiar: h)= r(' e)teo\n kera/wn, ou)d' e)le/fantos e)/hs. a)nti\ tou= a)lhqh/s: para\ to\ *(omhriko/n: doiai\ ga/r te pu/lai a)menhnw=n ei)sin o)nei/rwn.

Notes (2)

1The headword, illustrated by the quotation given, is an epic/poetic variant of o)/nar (omicron 326). ↩
2Greek Anthology 7.42.1-2 (Diodorus); Homer, Odyssey 19.562. For the equivalence of e)teo/s and a)lhqh/s, see epsilon 3285. Callimachus was the son of Battos (see kappa 227), and his famous dream of the Muses is related in his Aitia. ↩

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ο334Ὀνείαταgoods[Meaning] not particularly 'foodstuffs', as the lexicographers [say], but all things that that provide benefit. Homer [writes]: "[you] leading goods." He did not say 'carrying'; for he was not lifting them.

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ο331Ὄναιντοmay they benefit ο332Ὀνείαass-hide, donkey-hide ο333Ὄνειαρdream ο334Ὀνείαταgoods ο335Ὀνείδειος λόγοςreproaching speech

Revision history6 revisions · last 17 Jan 2021

17 Jan 2021tweaked note — Catharine Roth
2 Jul 2013deleted link — Catharine Roth
2 Jul 2013Revised — David Whitehead
9 Jun 2012tweaks — Catharine Roth
8 Jun 2012slightly amended translation; — Aikaterini Oikonomopoulou
24 Dec 2009another x-ref; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
23 Dec 2009Translated — Catharine Roth

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Notes (2)

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