Φοιτάλμιος
brine-wandering
Translated by William Hutton10 Feb 2014Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[no gloss]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Φοιτάλμιος.
Betacode
*foita/lmios.
Notes
- Recorded as an epithet of Poseidon in ps.-Herodian, Epimerismi 147.10, who etymologizes it as
o( foitw=n e)n th=| a(/lmh| ("he who wanders in the brine"). Apart from the derivative entry in ps.-Zonaras 1827.12-13, the word is not attested elsewhere. Adler refers to phi 874,futa/lmios ('nourishing'/'at birth'), implying that the current headword is a variant of that more common adjective, which ps.-Zonaras (above) has as an epithet of Zeus (the two adjectives would have been homophonous in later Greek).
Adler also compares Lexicon Ambrosianum 430.
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Revision history5 revisions · last 3 Apr 2023
- betacode cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- note cosmetic — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — William Hutton
- removed a keyword; cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
- augmented note — William Hutton
- Translated — William Hutton