Ῥοῖζος
rushing sound, whistling, whizzing
Translated by Catharine Roth13 Sep 2010Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning a] rush, noise.1
Josephus [writes]: "thus with a rush and force they fell on the Romans so as to break their ranks."2
Also [sc. attested is the neuter]r(oi/zhma ["rushing sound"], [also meaning] a noise.3
Also [sc. attested is]r(oi/zhsen ["he/she/it made a rushing sound"], [meaning] spoke,4 made a sound.5
Josephus [writes]: "thus with a rush and force they fell on the Romans so as to break their ranks."2
Also [sc. attested is the neuter]
Also [sc. attested is]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥοῖζος· ῥύμη, ἦχος. Ἰώσηπος· οὕτω δὲ ῥοίζῳ καὶ βίᾳ τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ἐνέπεσον ὡς διαρρῆξαι τὰς τάξεις. καὶ Ῥοίζημα, ὁ ἦχος. καὶ Ῥοίζησεν, ἐφώνησεν, ἤχησεν.
Betacode
*(roi=zos: r(u/mh, h)=xos. *)iw/shpos: ou(/tw de\ r(oi/zw| kai\ bi/a| toi=s *(rwmai/ois e)ne/peson w(s diarrh=cai ta\s ta/ceis. kai\ *(roi/zhma, o( h)=xos. kai\ *(roi/zhsen, e)fw/nhsen, h)/xhsen.
Notes (5)
- cf. generally rho 274, rho 275; and see also pi 1405 (end).
- 1Same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius rho150 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 16.361, where the accusative case
r(oi=zon occurs. ↩ - 2Josephus, Jewish War 3.233 (web address 1). ↩
- 3cf. ps.-Zonaras. ↩
- 4Aorist of
r(oize/w , third person singular. Same gloss in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 10.502, where it occurs. ↩ - 5cf. ps.-Zonaras, ps.-Herodian, Hesychius. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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