Ταρτησία μύραινα
Tartesian murry
Translated by Catharine Roth18 Sep 2006Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
[sc. So called] because they grow very large there.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ταρτησία μύραινα· ὡς ἐκεῖ γινομένων μεγίστων.
Betacode
*tarthsi/a mu/raina: w(s e)kei= ginome/nwn megi/stwn.
Notes
- Likewise in other lexica, commenting on Aristophanes, Frogs 475, where the headword phrase occurs as a threat.
See further tau 137, tau 1124; also, in a figurative sense, mu 1432 and pi 2370.
Linked from2 entries
- τ137ΤαρτησσόςTartessos, TartessusAn Iberian city facing Ocean, remote beside the Birdless Lake. Agathonius became king of Tartessos. Aristophanes calls the murry Tartesian. And in the neuter [it is] *tarth/sion.
- τ1124Ἀραὶ κατὰcurses against enemies going"Such a black-hearted rock of Styx and the blood-dripping cliff of Acheron are guarding you; and the running dogs of Cocytus and the hundred-headed viper, which will rend your inward parts; and the Tartesian sea-eel…
Neighbouring entries
Revision history4 revisions · last 2 Apr 2014
- added cross-references — Catharine Roth
- Revised — David Whitehead
- expanded note — David Whitehead
- tweaked tr; another x-ref; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth