Πνιγεύς
choker
Translated by Ryan Stone19 Nov 2012Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] a furnace, a kribanos ["oven"]. Properly, [somewhere] where the coals are damped down. That is why he adds: "we [are] the coals."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πνιγεύς· ὁ φοῦρνος, ὁ κρίβανος. κυρίως, ὅπου οἱ ἄνθρακες συμπνίγονται. διὸ ἐπιλέγει· ἡμεῖς δὲ ἄνθρακες.
Betacode
*pnigeu/s: o( fou=rnos, o( kri/banos. kuri/ws, o(/pou oi( a)/nqrakes sumpni/gontai. dio\ e)pile/gei: h(mei=s de\ a)/nqrakes.
Notes (1)
- Copied in large part, to phi 629.
- 1Aristophanes, Clouds 96-97 (web address 1), with scholion. Likewise or similarly in other lexica. According to Strepsiades, the teachers in Socrates' school compare the heavens to an oven in which humans are the coals. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- π1831Πνίγει μετρίῳwith moderate stiflingness[Meaning] with medium heat, that is, [in] spring. And the [sc. nominative/accusative] plural [is] pni/gh.
- π1832Πνιγηράstifling[Meaning] burning hot, and warm, for a furnace [is] a pnigeu/s. But [note] that together with the time, the rope and the bench are stifling. Aristophanes [writes]: "for there is one [sc. way of getting to Hades] from a…
- π1833Πνῖγοςstiflingness[sc. The sun's] heat.
- φ629Φοῦρνοςfurnace[Meaning a] choker, kribanos, where the coals are damped down.
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Revision history4 revisions · last 25 Sep 2021
- expanded note — Catharine Roth
- added a link — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ryan Stone