Οὐρανία αἴξ
heavenly goat
Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝5 Apr 2003Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Οὐρανία αἴξ· ᾗ οἱ εὐχόμενοι πάντως ἐπετύγχανον· ἴσως διὰ τὸ τὴν σελήνην αὐτῇ ἐποχεῖσθαι. Κρατῖνος Χείρωσιν· αἲξ οὐρανία. καὶ Οὐρανία τροφή. καὶ τὰς οὐρανίας δυνάμεις.
Betacode
*ou)rani/a ai)/c: h(=| oi( eu)xo/menoi pa/ntws e)petu/gxanon: i)/sws dia\ to\ th\n selh/nhn au)th=| e)poxei=sqai. *krati=nos *xei/rwsin: ai)\c ou)rani/a. kai\ *ou)rani/a trofh/. kai\ ta\s ou)rani/as duna/meis.
Notes (3)
- Same entry in Photius, Lexicon omicron674 Theodoridis (taken to come from Aelius Dionysius); and cf. Hesychius omicron1833.
The proverbial headword phrase is found more than once in Attic comedy 'as a source of mysterious and suspected wealth, in allusion to the horn of Amalthea [alpha 1478]' (LSJ s.v.ai)/c ). - 1Cratinus fr. 261 K.-A. (244 Kock); cf. alphaiota 237. ↩
- 2Adler suggests attributing this phrase to Symeon Metaphrastes; be that as it may, it is also attested (in the dative case) in Gregory of Nyssa, In Basilium fratrem 21. ↩
- 3This phrase in the accusative plural is attested in several Christian writers, e.g. Eusebius' Commentary on the Psalms. ↩
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- betacode — Catharine Roth
- coding — Catharine Roth
- augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
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- modified translation, added notes and keywords — Catharine Roth
- Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝