Σέλας
light, brightness, gleam, flame
Translated by Ronald Allen30 May 2012Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σέλας· πῦρ· ἢ τὸν κεραυνόν, καὶ τὸ φῶς τῆς σελήνης· ἢ λαμπηδών. καὶ Σελαγεῖται, λάμπεται.
Betacode
*se/las: pu=r: h)\ to\n kerauno/n, kai\ to\ fw=s th=s selh/nhs: h)\ lamphdw/n. kai\ *selagei=tai, la/mpetai.
Notes (3)
- The headword -- quoted from Homer: see next note -- is a neuter noun in (as the second gloss shows) the accusative singular; cf. generally LSJ s.v.
- 1The gloss is the same form as the headword. The headword is similarly glossed in Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon 141.1; Hesychius s.v.; Etymologicum Magnum 709.20 (Kallierges); a scholion ( = D scholia) to Homer, Iliad 8.509 (web address 1), where Hector speaks of Trojan fires whose
se/las will reach to heaven; and ps.-Herodian, Partitiones 122.1; see De Stefani, p. 65. ↩ - 2Up to this point the entry is identical in the Synagoge and Photius' Lexicon. ↩
- 3See also sigma 191 (lemma and gloss). [In her critical apparatus, Adler notes that mss AGF lack this cross-reference.] ↩
References
E.L. De Stefani, 'Per le fonti dell' Etimologico Gudiano,' Byzantinische Zeitschrift, vol. 16, pp. 52-68, 1907.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history3 revisions · last 15 Mar 2015
- coding — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
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- Translated — Ronald Allen