Πρημαινούσας τε θυέλλας
and blasting squalls
Translated by Ronald Allen11 Dec 2010Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Aristophanes in Clouds [sc. uses the phrase]. A squall, a dense mass of wind.1 But prhmainou/sas ["blasting"] [means] raging, and blowing violently. For prh=sai ["to swell out by blowing"] [is] the [sc. verb that means] fush=sai ["to blow up"].2 Homer [writes]: "the wind blew into and swelled out the middle of the sail."3
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πρημαινούσας τε θυέλλας· Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις. θύελλα, συστροφὴ τοῦ ἀνέμου. πρημαινούσας δὲ μαινομένας, καὶ λάβρως φυσώσας· πρῆσαι γὰρ τὸ φυσῆσαι. Ὅμηρος· ἐν δ' ἄνεμος πρῆσε μέσον ἱστίον.
Betacode
*prhmainou/sas te que/llas: *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais. qu/ella, sustrofh\ tou= a)ne/mou. prhmainou/sas de\ mainome/nas, kai\ la/brws fusw/sas: prh=sai ga\r to\ fush=sai. *(/omhros: e)n d' a)/nemos prh=se me/son i(sti/on.
Notes (3)
- The headword phrase is extracted from Aristophanes, Clouds 336 (web address 1), where Strepsiades sarcastically cites the phrase (but probably inaccurately; see Dover, pp. 145-6) as an example of dithyrambic choral verse.
The lemma's participle is present active, feminine accusative plural, of the verbprhmai/nw , I blow hard, blast; see generally LSJ s.v. - 1This definition of
qu/ella follows the scholia to the aforementioned passage; cf. theta 533. ↩ - 2Aorist active infinitive of
prh/qw . See also pi 2261 and pi 2266. ↩ - 3Homer, Iliad 1.481 (web address 2), describing the strong, favorable wind that Apollo provided the Achaeans upon their return from having delivered Chryseis to her father on Tenedos. ↩
References
K.J. Dover, ed., Aristophanes Clouds, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1968
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 29 Oct 2021
- expanded note 2 — Catharine Roth
- tweaked tr — David Whitehead
- another x-ref; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen