Ποσειδῶν

Poseidon, Posidon

Translated by David Whitehead21 Nov 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 15 words
Also [sc. attested is] *po/seidon, the vocative.1 But Poseidion [is] a name of a place.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ποσειδῶν· καὶ Πόσειδον, ἡ κλητική. Ποσείδιον δὲ ὄνομα τόπου.

Betacode
*poseidw=n: kai\ *po/seidon, h( klhtikh/. *posei/dion de\ o)/noma to/pou.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Nominative and vocative of Poseidon, Greek god of the sea (and earthquakes); see generally OCD4 s.v.. ↩
  2. 2Quite common as a name of places and, especially, promontories; e.g. the NE tip of the island of Chios. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 10 Aug 2014
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. tweak — David Whitehead
  3. augmented n.2 — David Whitehead
  4. added keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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