Πλήμη
flood-tide
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Oct 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πλήμη· ἡ πλημμύρα τῆς θαλάσσης. καὶ Πλημμυρίς, ἡ ταραχή.
Betacode
*plh/mh: h( plhmmu/ra th=s qala/sshs. kai\ *plhmmuri/s, h( taraxh/.
Notes (2)
- cf. Photius pi947 Theodoridis s.v.
plhmmu/ra , as well as other lexica, and a scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 1.757. (On preferring the spelling ofplhmu/ra andplhmuri/s with single mu, see LSJ s.v.plhmuri/s .) - 1Attested in historians beginning with Polybius. ↩
- 2Mainly poetic: attested in Homer (Odyssey 9.486), Herodotus, Bacchylides, tragedy, etc.; also in medical writers, referring to redundance or congestion of fluids in the body. ↩
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- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword — Catharine Roth
- more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth