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Headword: Κεραυνός
Adler number: kappa,1379
Translated headword: thunderbolt
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Lightning-flash.[1]
[There is] a proverb.[2] Aristophanes [writes]: "if the thunderbolt strikes the perjured, how then has it not burned Simon and Cleonymus and Theorus? And still they are perjured."[3] Of thunderbolts, some [are] descending, others -- the ones which destroy by touching [i.e. burning] smoky, others are called vivid."[4]
Greek Original:
Κεραυνός: ἡ ἀστραπή. παροιμία. Ἀριστοφάνης: εἰ βάλλει τοὺς ἐπιόρκους ὁ κεραυνός, πῶς οὐχὶ Σίμωνα καὶ Κλεώνυμον καὶ Θέωρον ἐνέπρησε; καίτοι σφόδρ' εἰσὶν ἐπίορκοι. τῶν δὲ κεραυνῶν οἱ μὲν καταιβάται, οἱ δὲ ψολόεντες οἱ τῇ ψαύσει ὀλλύντες, οἱ δὲ ἀργῆτες καλοῦνται.
Notes:
[1] cf. kappa 1377 and esp. kappa 1380.
[2] What this means here is not clear.
[3] An approximation of Aristophanes, Clouds 399-400 (web address 1); cf. sigma 447.
[4] From the scholia to Aristophanes, Knights 696 (= the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 24.538); cf. alpha 3774, psi 123.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; epic; ethics; imagery; law; politics; proverbs; religion; science and technology
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 29 July 2008@17:59:25.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 30 July 2008@03:26:45.
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