Πελαγιζούσαις

on the high seas

Translated by David Whitehead4 Mar 2010Vetting: high5 revisions

1 note · 24 words

[Meaning them] sailing on the high seas. "But when the ships were on the high seas it happened that the majority of them sank."¹

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πελαγιζούσαις· εἰς πέλαγος πλεούσαις. πελαγιζούσαις δὲ ταῖς ναυσὶ συνέβη τὰς πλείω καταδῦναι.

Betacode

*pelagizou/sais: ei)s pe/lagos pleou/sais. pelagizou/sais de\ tai=s nausi\ sune/bh ta\s plei/w katadu=nai.

Notes (1)

The headword participle, feminine dative plural, comes from the verb pelagi/zw [pi 924] (in sense III of LSJ s.v.); it is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
1Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable. ↩

Linked from1 entry

π924ΠελαγίζωI flood[Used] with an accusative.

Neighbouring entries

π921Πεκτῆρεςshearers π922Πεκτούμενονbeing clipped, being shorn π923Πελαγιζούσαιςon the high seas π924ΠελαγίζωI flood π925Πελαγιῶτις λίμνηlake Pelagiotis

Revision history5 revisions · last 22 Oct 2015

22 Oct 2015coding — Catharine Roth
19 Sep 2013Revised — David Whitehead
4 Sep 2011x-ref — David Whitehead
11 Mar 2010expanded primary note — David Whitehead
11 Mar 2010added keyword, set status — Catharine Roth
4 Mar 2010Translated — David Whitehead