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Headword:
Ὑδρορρόα
Adler number: upsilon,64
Translated headword: watercourse
Vetting Status: low
Translation: ['Watercourse'] also [sc. means] an underwater rock. Another version of the word is u(dro/rroia.[1]
“And pushing themselves together into the watercourses they were saved through them towards the ships”.[2]
Greek Original:Ὑδρορρόα καὶ ἡ ὕφαλος πέτρα. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ὑδρόρροια. οἱ δὲ εἰς τὰς ὑδρορρόας συνωθοῦντες αὑτοὺς διὰ τούτων ἐσῴζοντο πρὸς τὰς ναῦς.
Notes:
[1] See also
upsilon 63 (and cf.
alpha 1491 and
theta 515) and esp.
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1186 (
falling into a watercourse: web address 1) and the corresponding
scholia, where this (mistaken: see LSJ) glossing occurs. The word
ὑδρόρροια is only attested here.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history
Translated by: Ioannis N. Doukas on 18 July 2009@18:50:56.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 19 July 2009@05:48:17.
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