Φόως
light
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Translation
Homer [writes]: "he/she/it brought to the light."1 [Meaning] before the completion of the defined time. [Homer] says concerning gates too: "having been spread apart, they produced light."2 Not so as to illuminate -- through the middle of the gate -- the city, but rather [providing] security for those taking flight. As in, "he made light for his comrades, hitting the man."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φόως· Ὅμηρος· ἤγαγε πρὸ φόωσδε. πρὸ τῆς τελειώσεως τοῦ ὡρισμένου καιροῦ. περὶ δὲ τῶν πυλῶν λέγει· αἱ δὲ πετασθεῖσαι τεῦξαν φάος. ὡς οὐ διὰ μέσης τῆς πύλης φωτίζεσθαι τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλὰ τὴν σωτηρίαν τῶν φευγόντων. ὡς τό, φόως δ' ἑτάροισιν ἔθηκεν, ἄνδρα βαλών.
Betacode
*fo/ws: *(/omhros: h)/gage pro\ fo/wsde. pro\ th=s teleiw/sews tou= w(risme/nou kairou=. peri\ de\ tw=n pulw=n le/gei: ai( de\ petasqei=sai teu=can fa/os. w(s ou) dia\ me/shs th=s pu/lhs fwti/zesqai th\n po/lin, a)lla\ th\n swthri/an tw=n feugo/ntwn. w(s to/, fo/ws d' e(ta/roisin e)/qhken, a)/ndra balw/n.
Notes (3)
- The epic headword, neuter nominative/accusative singular (it is found in no other case or number), is a lengthening of
fw=s (phi 671; LSJ s.v.), which in turn is a contraction offa/os (phi 88; LSJ s.v.). The gloss employs the adverb of place (cf. Smyth, §342; Monro, 109). - 1The quotation approximates both Homer, Iliad 16.188 (web address 1) and Homer, Iliad 19.118 (web address 2). ↩
- 2Homer, Iliad 21.538, with scholion (web address 3). Zenodotus [zeta 75] rejected Homer, Iliad 21.538-9. Regarding this passage, the scholiast conjectured that Zenodotus understood
fa/os "light" as "illumination" instead of figuratively as "salvation" (cf. Aristonicus in the A scholia; Erbse; Richardson, p. 98). Indeed, modern translators often follow the scholiast by translatingfa/os here as "deliverance" (Murray, p. 445) or "haven of refuge" (Butler, web address 3). ↩ - 3Homer, Iliad 6.6 (web address 4): illustrating
fo/ws in the sense of "refuge, salvation." ↩
References
H.W. Smyth, Greek Grammar, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1956.
D.B. Monro, A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Philadelphia, PA: W.H. Allen, 1992.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, vols. I-VII, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969-1988.
N. Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary, vol. VI, gen. ed. G.S. Kirk, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
A.T. Murray, trans., W.F. Wyatt, rev., Homer: Iliad, Books 11-24, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
D.B. Monro, A Grammar of the Homeric Dialect, Philadelphia, PA: W.H. Allen, 1992.
H. Erbse, Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem, vols. I-VII, Berlin: de Gruyter, 1969-1988.
N. Richardson, The Iliad: A Commentary, vol. VI, gen. ed. G.S. Kirk, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
A.T. Murray, trans., W.F. Wyatt, rev., Homer: Iliad, Books 11-24, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
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