Πολυδίψιον
very thirsty
Translated by Catharine Roth2 Mar 2005Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Either [a place] which has been thirsty for many years; from a legend;1 or one which is very desirable.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πολυδίψιον· ἢ τὸ πολλοῖς ἔτεσι διψῆσαν· ἀπὸ ἱστορίας· ἢ τὸ ἐπιπόθητον.
Betacode
*poludi/yion: h)\ to\ polloi=s e)/tesi diyh=san: a)po\ i(stori/as: h)\ to\ e)pipo/qhton.
Notes (1)
- The headword appears -- in the neuter accusative singular, as here --as an epithet of the city of Argos [Myth, Place] in Homer, Iliad 4.171 (web address 1).
The explanations come from scholia on this verse. LSJ s.v. favours the first of them, but for the second cf. Strabo 8.6.7 and Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 10.433E (10.43 Kaibel). - 1For this phrase cf. alpha 3531, beta 71, alphaiota 23, kappa 444, kappa 1575, lambda 261, lambda 450, lambda 491, mu 35, tau 752. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 15 Jan 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- fixed link — Catharine Roth
- modified translation; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth