Πρηστήρ
lightning-bolt
Translated by Ronald Allen5 Dec 2010Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] fire from heaven.1
Or "a cloud rent all round by fire along with a most violent wind."2
"[...] a wind with thunder-claps and lightning-bolts having arisen from Libya and the turbulence of the [sc. ocean's] swell having put the ships in peril."3
And elsewhere: "many unforeseen blasts came down, many most violent lightning-bolts, and great waves."4
Or "a cloud rent all round by fire along with a most violent wind."2
"[...] a wind with thunder-claps and lightning-bolts having arisen from Libya and the turbulence of the [sc. ocean's] swell having put the ships in peril."3
And elsewhere: "many unforeseen blasts came down, many most violent lightning-bolts, and great waves."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Πρηστήρ· πῦρ ἀπ' οὐρανοῦ. ἢ νέφος περισχεθὲν πυρὶ μετὰ πνεύματος βιαιοτάτου. πνεύματος μετὰ βροντῶν καὶ πρηστήρων ἐξαναστάντος Λιβυκοῦ καὶ ταραχὴν τοῦ κλύδωνος εἰργασμένου κακωθῆναι τὰς ναῦς. καὶ αὖθις· πολλὰ δὲ φυσήματα ἀπροόρατα ἐμπίπτει, πολλοὶ δὲ πρηστῆρες βιαιότατοι καὶ μεγέθη κυμάτων.
Betacode
*prhsth/r: pu=r a)p' ou)ranou=. h)\ ne/fos perisxeqe\n puri\ meta\ pneu/matos biaiota/tou. pneu/matos meta\ brontw=n kai\ prhsth/rwn e)canasta/ntos *libukou= kai\ taraxh\n tou= klu/dwnos ei)rgasme/nou kakwqh=nai ta\s nau=s. kai\ au)=qis: polla\ de\ fush/mata a)proo/rata e)mpi/ptei, polloi\ de\ prhsth=res biaio/tatoi kai\ mege/qh kuma/twn.
Notes (4)
- The headword, already at pi 2268, is a masculine noun in the nominative singular; see generally LSJ s.v., and cf. also the cognate verb at pi 2266. As the glosses and quotations in the present entry show, the headword's meaning varies with context; cf. pi 2268 notes.
- 1The headword is identically glossed in Photius' Lexicon (pi1167 Theodoridis), Lexica Segueriana 347.35, and the Synagoge; cf. Hesychius pi3276. ↩
- 2From Diogenes Laertius 7.154, on the meteorological theories of Zeno (zeta 79) and his followers, the Stoics. ↩
- 3Quotation unidentifiable. ↩
- 4Tentatively attributed by Adler to either Aelian or Iamblichus; now Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 123 Habrich. ↩
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Revision history4 revisions · last 24 May 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ronald Allen