LAILAPS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Aug 27 09:40:33 EDT 1998
At 7:59 AM -0500 8/27/98, Maurice A. O'Sullivan wrote:
>Thanks to the reverse search facility inherent in electronic editions of
>lexicons, in the middle L & S I find:
>
>AIGIS,
>I. the aegis or shield of Zeus, described in Il. 5. 738 sqq. the aegis on
>statues of Athena is a short cloak of goat-skin, covered with scales, set
>with the Gorgon's head, and fringed with snakes, v. Hdt. 4. 189. 2. a
>goatskin coat, Eur. II. 1 a rushing storm, hurricane, Aesch.
>
>The big LSJ expands the last entry as:
>" _rushing storm, hurricane_ terrible as the shaken aegis Aseschylus:
>Choephori 593 (lyr.)
People might like to know about the wonderful special search facility at
University of Kentucky Classics Department, which does, among other things,
reverse searches for English words in Greek, Latin, major modern languages,
and searches of various sorts in databases concerned with antiquity:
http://www.uky.edu/ArtsSciences/Classics/lexindex.html
Simply putting "hurricane" into the reverse-English search of LSJ, I found
a number of words, including LAILAPS, AIGIS, and others, but the word with
the greatest number of entries was QUELLA:
QUELLA--from QUW (rage, be furious) and AELLA <-- AHMI (blow): hurricane,
squall, (cf. Aristotle, MU. 395a6, KAKH ANEMOIO Hom Il 6.346, al;
MISGOMENWN ANEMWN ... QU. Hom. Od 5.317; PUROS T'OLOOIO QUELLAI, etc.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics/Washington University
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