[B-Greek] A bit of help, please
James Ernest
j.d.ernest at bc.edu
Tue Oct 14 08:32:11 EDT 2008
George, you can find the Diamerismos as a section of the Chronicon of
Hippolytus of Rome--from a quick glance, it appears to be applying the
Genesis table of nations to the contemporary world? (The descendents of
Japheth include the Greeks, the Latins, etc.)
I don't know what the best place is to look up all the topographical names,
and I'm not familiar with a river named Potamis, but the editor who capped
POTAMIDOS is evidently taking it as a proper name.
KATA hILION: the Berlin edition of Hippolytus (as represented in TLG) has
KATA hHLION, which would be a directional indication (east).
James Ernest
On 10/11/08, George F Somsel <gfsomsel at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Are you referring to Euripides' "Hyppolytus"? In a quick scan I fail to
> find this passage.
>
> george
> gfsomsel
>
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> Sent: Friday, October 3, 2008 9:10:23 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] A bit of help, please
>
> Hello,
> For the past few months I have been working on a text from Hippolytus in an
> effort to "jump-start" my own study of Greek, which, unfortunately, has
> lain
> comatose for over a quarter of a century. I have been satisfied with my
> progress until I ran across the second clause of the following sentence in
> section 83
> of the Diamerismos:
>
> hESTI DE TA ORIA AUTON APO MEDIAS EOS GADEIRON TA PROS BORRAN, EUROS DE APO
> POTAMIDOS POTAMOU EWS MASTOUSIAS TES KATA hILION.
>
> Can anyone identify Potamidos potamou (capitalization follows the
> original).
> It appears to be something of a redundancy to me. Also, can anyone
> identify
> 'Ilion?
>
> Many Thanks,
> Robert Sumner
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