Θωΰσσοντες
howling
Translated by Ioannis Doukas4 Oct 2007Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning they] yelling. Homer [writes]: "howling loud".1
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'howling dog',2 [meaning] one which barks.
Also [sc. attested is] "howled", [meaning he/she/it] cried out. Sophocles [writes]: "and as he scanned the room full of his disastrous madness, he struck his head and he howled".3 And "howled" [can also mean], called, shouted.4
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'howling dog',2 [meaning] one which barks.
Also [sc. attested is] "howled", [meaning he/she/it] cried out. Sophocles [writes]: "and as he scanned the room full of his disastrous madness, he struck his head and he howled".3 And "howled" [can also mean], called, shouted.4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Θωΰσσοντες· ὑλακτοῦντες. Ὅμηρος· βαρύβρωμα θωΰσσοντες. καὶ Θωϋκτὴρ κύων, ὁ ὑλακτικός. καὶ Θώϋξεν, ἀνεβόησε. Σοφοκλῆς· καὶ πλῆρες ἄτης ὡς διοπτεύει στέγος, παίσας κάρα θώϋξεν. καὶ θώϋξεν, ἐκάλεσεν, ἐβόησεν.
Betacode
*qwu/+ssontes: u(laktou=ntes. *(/omhros: baru/brwma qwu/+ssontes. kai\ *qwu+kth\r ku/wn, o( u(laktiko/s. kai\ *qw/u+cen, a)nebo/hse. *sofoklh=s: kai\ plh=res a)/ths w(s diopteu/ei ste/gos, pai/sas ka/ra qw/u+cen. kai\ qw/u+cen, e)ka/lesen, e)bo/hsen.
Notes (4)
- The headword is present participle, masculine nominative plural, of the verb
qwu/+ssw ; see also ps.-Zonaras s.vv.qwu/+sei andqwu/+ssontes , and Hesychius (and, post-Suda, Etymologicum Magnum) s.v.qwu/+ssein . The verb is attested primarily in tragedy: see e.g. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 893 (web address 1), Sophocles, Ajax 308 (web address 2, quoted here; see below, note 3) and 335 (web address 3), and Euripides, Hecuba 113 (web address 4) and Orestes 168 (web address 5); see also the corresponding scholia for more glosses of the verb. - 1[Homer] fr. 26 Davies (17 Kinkel); read however
baru/broma for the Suda'sbaru/brwma ; cf. beta 127. ↩ - 2Perhaps from Greek Anthology 16.91.5 (accusative case); cf. ps.-Zonaras s.vv.
qwu+kth/r andqwu/+ssontes . ↩ - 3Sophocles, Ajax 307-8, with scholion. ↩
- 4From the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1624 (where this verb also occurs). ↩
References
Davies, M. (ed.), Epicorum graecorum fragmenta, Göttingen 1988
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 3 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 4 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 5 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history5 revisions · last 28 Apr 2016
- coding — David Whitehead
- tweaked note — Catharine Roth
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ioannis Doukas