Πλώσιμον

navigable, suitable for sailing

Translated by Catharine Roth4 May 2011Vetting: high2 revisions

1 note · 14 words
[Meaning] traversable. Sophocles [writes]: "the sea[-voyage] hither [is] far, and not navigable." Meaning untraversable.1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πλώσιμον· διαβατόν. Σοφοκλῆς· μακρὸν τὸ δεῦρο πέλαγος, οὐδὲ πλώσιμον. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀδιάβατον.

Betacode
*plw/simon: diabato/n. *sofoklh=s: makro\n to\ deu=ro pe/lagos, ou)de\ plw/simon. a)nti\ tou= a)dia/baton.

Notes (1)

  1. The headword is extracted from the quotation given.
  2. 1Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 663 (web address 1), with scholion. ↩

External resources

Neighbouring entries

π1806Πλώοντες[they] sailingπ1807ΠλώωI sailπ1808Πλώσιμονnavigable, suitable for sailingπ1809Πλωτὴ νῆσοςfloating islandπ1810Πλωτῆρεςboatmen
Revision history2 revisions · last 7 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. another note; another keyword; tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

Keyboard shortcuts

j
Next entry
k
Previous entry
g
Toggle Greek
/
Search
?
Show shortcuts