Φυτάλμιος

congenital

Translated by William Hutton14 Feb 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 33 words
[sc. The word comes] from [the noun] fu/tlh ['lineage'].1 [Meaning] from birth, and from the beginning. "[O o] for your blind eyes! Were you also congenital [sc. in your blindness][?]" So Sophocles [writes].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φυτάλμιος· ἀπὸ φύτλης. ἀπὸ γενέσεως, καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς. ἀλαῶν ὀμμάτων. ἄρα καὶ ἦσθα φυτάλμιος. οὕτω Σοφοκλῆς.

Betacode
*futa/lmios: a)po\ fu/tlhs. a)po\ gene/sews, kai\ e)c a)rxh=s. a)law=n o)mma/twn. a)/ra kai\ h)=sqa futa/lmios. ou(/tw *sofoklh=s.

Notes (2)

  1. The headword adjective, drawn from the quotation that follows, is nominative singular masculine. It can also mean 'fostering' or 'fertile' and as such is attested as a divine epithet for Poseidon (e.g. Pausanias 2.32.8), or Zeus (e.g. Hesychius phi1067). See also phi 805.
  2. 1This first gloss is surely intended to provide etymological rather than semantic information. For fu/tlh see phi 879. ↩
  3. 2Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 149-50 [150-1 in some editions] (the chorus addressing Oedipus), with comments from the scholia there. ↩

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φ872Φυταλίζειimplantsφ873ΦυτάλιμοςPhytalimos, Phytalimusφ874Φυτάλμιοςcongenitalφ875Φυτείαplantingφ876ΦύττειονPhytteion, Phyteion
Revision history2 revisions · last 16 Feb 2014
  1. x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  2. tweaks, status — Catharine Roth
  3. Translated — William Hutton

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