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Headword: Ἤπειρος
Adler number: eta,429
Translated headword: mainland
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Dry land, as being in some way unlimited [apeiros]. The earth is improperly called ἤπειρος in the poets, but properly [ἤπειρος is the land] which extends into unlimited [territory], as Euripides [writes]: "sending out a mainland foot into unlimited [space]."[1]
Also [the phrase] mainland sea.
Greek Original:
Ἤπειρος: χέρσος γῆ: οἷον ἄπειρός τις οὖσα. ἤπειρος δὲ λέγεται παρὰ τοῖς ποιηταῖς ἡ γῆ καταχρηστικῶς, κυρίως δὲ ἡ εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκβάλλουσα, ὡς Εὐριπίδης: ἤπειρον εἰς ἄπειρον ἐκβαλλὼν πόδα. καὶ Ἠπειρωτὴ θάλασσα.
Notes:
cf. eta 428, eta 430.
[1] cf. scholion on Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 4.71, as well as other lexica; Euripides fr.1010.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 19 September 2006@22:07:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented translation; more keywords; cosmetics) on 20 September 2006@03:34:28.
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