Στίβη

frost

Translated by William Hutton7 Apr 2014Vetting: high2 revisions

3 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning] rime, or ice.1 Homer [writes]: "dawn's frost".2 That is, early-morning.
Also [sc. attested is] stibh/eis ["frosty"],3 [meaning] the chill in the air that happens around dawn.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Στίβη· πηγυλίς, ἢ πάχνη. Ὅμηρος· στίβη ὑπηοίη. τουτέστιν ὀρθρινή. καὶ Στιβήεις, ἡ ὑπὸ τὴν ἕω γινομένη ψυχρότης τοῦ ἀέρος.

Betacode
*sti/bh: phguli/s, h)\ pa/xnh. *(/omhros: sti/bh u(phoi/h. toute/stin o)rqrinh/. kai\ *stibh/eis, h( u(po\ th\n e(/w ginome/nh yuxro/ths tou= a)e/ros. 

Notes (3)

  1. 1cf. Hesychius sigma1846, explicitly citing the same passage in Homer (see n. 2). ↩
  2. 2Homer, Odyssey 17.25; for the glosses cf. scholia thereto, and to Odyssey 5.467. ↩
  3. 3This word, an adjective (nominative singular masculine) derived from the primary headword, is attested elsewhere only at Callimachus, Hecale fr. 260.64 Pfeiffer. Adler cites a scholion to this passage, and reports that Wilamowitz ('Ueber die Hekale des Kallimachos,' GGN 1893, 734-735 [= Kleine Schriften II 33-36], at 735,4) ascribed the entire gloss to the Roman-period commentator Sallustius [sigma 60]. ↩

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Revision history2 revisions · last 9 Apr 2022
  1. cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
  2. expanded n.2; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — William Hutton

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