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Headword:
Κρημνώδη
κατανίφει
Adler number: kappa,2389
Translated headword: [If] it snows precipitously[1]
Vetting Status: low
Translation: If [it is spelled] with eta, it stands for "greatly",[2] but if with iota,
κρίμνα [is] a kind of meal, from which flour is made, that is wheat-meal;[3] and
λευκαίνειν [is] to sprinkle.[4]
Homer [says]: "when snow sprinkled the fields."[5]
Κρημνώδη κατανίφει: εἰ μὲν διὰ τοῦ η ἀντὶ τοῦ μεγάλα, εἰ δὲ διὰ τοῦ ι κρίμνα εἶδος ἀλεύρου, ἐξ οὗ ἡ παιπάλη γίνεται, τουτέστι τὸ ἄλευρον: καὶ τὸ λευκαίνειν παλύνειν. Ὅμηρος: ὅτε πέρ τε χιὼν ἐπάλυνεν ἀρούρας.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Clouds 965; cf.
kappa 2261. The
scholia there lie behind the gloss here (but see n.4 below).
[2] LSJ entry for
κρημνώδης at web address 1.
[3] LSJ entry for
κριμνώδης at web address 2.
[4] A stray extract from the
scholia on an earlier line (262) of
Clouds.
[5]
Homer,
Iliad 10.7 (web address 3); cf.
pi 120.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Web address 3
Keywords: comedy; definition; epic; food
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 26 January 2001@22:20:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword; augmented and rearranged notes) on 25 May 2001@10:33:02.
Catharine Roth (added betacode) on 29 January 2007@01:31:06.
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