Ὀρρωδία

dread, terror

Translated by Catharine Roth10 May 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

4 notes · 33 words
[Meaning] fear.1 [sc. Formed] out of the [noun] o)/rros ["rump"],2 which is a part of the buttock[s], the so-called bull.3
"At the same time there was terror, lest they be caught fleeing backwards."4

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀρρωδία· φόβος. ἐκ τοῦ ὄρρου, ὅ ἐστι μέρος τῆς πυγῆς, ὁ καλούμενος ταῦρος. ἅμα μὲν ὀρρωδία ἦν, μὴ ἄρα φθάσαιεν ὀπίσω ἀναφυγόντες.

Betacode
*)orrwdi/a: fo/bos. e)k tou= o)/rrou, o(/ e)sti me/ros th=s pugh=s, o( kalou/menos tau=ros. a(/ma me\n o)rrwdi/a h)=n, mh\ a)/ra fqa/saien o)pi/sw a)nafugo/ntes.

Notes (4)

  1. See also omicron 631.
  2. 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius omicron524 Theodoridis. ↩
  3. 2The manuscripts read o(/rou 'boundary' or o)/rous 'mountain'; the editio princeps of Demetrius Chalcocondyles (1499) corrected to o)/rrou. ↩
  4. 3cf. tau 167. ↩
  5. 4Quotation (transmitted, according to Adler, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 19 May 2015
  1. my typo, coding — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. expanded note — Catharine Roth
  4. tweaks; more keywords — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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