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Headword:
Νιφετός
Adler number: nu,439
Translated headword: snowstorm
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Quite thin descending snow. "There are four congealments of watery moisture in the air. Up above the earth, the lesser kind is snow, and the greater kind is hail. Down below on the earth, the lesser is hoar-frost, and the greater is frost. But a snowstorm is not congealment; rather its quality is of a different appearance."[1]
"So when the Scythian land is sprinkled often with a snowstorm, and it is impossible for them to live in any weather other than frozen."[2]
And elsewhere: "but for you, queen, being what you are, even the snowstorm chill bears fruit." [3]
Greek Original:Νιφετός: ἡ κατάλεπτος καταφερομένη χιών. τέσσαρές εἰσι πήξεις τῆς ἐν τῷ ἀέρι ὑδατώδους πήξεως ὑγρότητος: ὑπὲρ γῆν μὲν ἄνω, ἐπ' ἔλαττον μὲν χιών, ἐπὶ πλέον δὲ χάλαζα: ἐπὶ γῆς δὲ κάτω, ἐπ' ἔλαττον μὲν πάχνη, ἐπὶ πλέον δὲ κρύσταλος: ὁ δὲ νιφετὸς πῆξις οὐκ ἔστιν, ἀλλὰ μᾶλλον περὶ τὴν ἀλλοίαν χροιὰν ἡ ποιότης αὕτη. ἅτε τῆς χώρας τῶν Σκυθῶν θαμὰ νιφετῷ παλυνομένης, καὶ ἀδύνατον ὂν αὐτοῖς ἄνευ κρυμώδους καταστήματος βιοτεύειν. καὶ αὖθις: ἐς δέ σ', ἄνασσα, τοίην χὠ νιφόεις κρυμὸς ὀπωροφορεῖ.
Notes:
[1] Unidentifiable passage, also in
Photius and the
Lexica Segueriana, as well as a scholion on
Homer,
Odyssey 4.566 (where the headword occurs).
[2] Part of
Menander Protector fr. 10.1 Blockley (=
De Legationibus 7); cf.
pi 120.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.252.5-6; cf.
kappa 2502.
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 25 November 2009@06:54:06.
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