Φοιτάλμιος

brine-wandering

Translated by William Hutton10 Feb 2014Vetting: high5 revisions

2 words

Translation

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Greek original · Adler’s text

Φοιτάλμιος.

Betacode
*foita/lmios. 

Notes

  1. 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
  1. betacode cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. note cosmetic — David Whitehead
  3. tweaked note — William Hutton
  4. removed a keyword; cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  5. augmented note — William Hutton
  6. Translated — William Hutton

Cite this entry

“brine-wandering.” Suda On Line. Tr. William Hutton. 10 February 2014. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/phi/805>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/phi/805>.

Translation by William Hutton for Suda On Line, revised by Catharine Roth, David Whitehead, William Hutton, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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