Πύλη ἱππήλατος

equestrian gate

Translated by David Whitehead22 Feb 2010Vetting: high7 revisions

2 notes · 14 words

[Meaning the one] through which they had come in.¹
Homer calls clouds 'heaven's gates'.²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πύλη ἱππήλατος· δι' ἧς εἰσεληλύθεισαν. Πύλας οὐρανοῦ Ὅμηρος τὰ νέφη λέγει.

Betacode

*pu/lh i(pph/latos: di' h(=s ei)selhlu/qeisan. *pu/las ou)ranou= *(/omhros ta\ ne/fh le/gei.

LSJ s.v. i(pph/latos lists several phrases which include this adjective, but not the present one. It is in fact attested (but with the word-order reversed) in the comments of grammarians and scholiasts on Homer, Iliad 8.58, where 'all the gates [sc. of Troy] were opened' (web address 1). However, the Suda's gloss -- see next note -- is unparalleled.
1The pluperfect tense of this gloss is striking; a specific episode? ↩
2From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 5.749 (web address 2). ↩

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