[B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse
Bert de Haan
dehaanaf at gmail.com
Tue Apr 21 18:59:40 EDT 2009
I found a few references. One of them here:
http://phrontistery.info/p.html
Bert de Haan
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> Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:20:35 -0700 (PDT)
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] The music of Homeric verse
> I'm not sure if you are asking about a possible English word or about a Greek word. Here is the entry from LSJ
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> πολύφλοισβος, ον, POLUFLOISBOS, ON, loud-roaring, θάλασσα QALASSA Il.1.34, Hes.Op.648, Archil.9.3, Diph.126.4, etc.; σπουδή SPOUDH confuseddissertation, Olymp.Alch.p.92 B.
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> Liddell, H. G., Scott, R., Jones, H. S., & McKenzie, R. (1996). A Greek-English lexicon. "With a revised supplement, 1996." (Rev. and augm. throughout) (1445). Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.
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> I find no such English word.
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> From: Eric Inman <eric.inman at wescorpflex.com>
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> The word POLUFLOISBOIO reminds me of the word "polyphoisbic" that I thought I remembered reading years ago in a book about Gallipoli. I thought I remembered it quoting an English poem in which the poet had coined the word, meaning multicolored, to refer to the rainbow colors cast by the spray of a boat. I also remember being able to look it up in a very large dictionary that has since been thrown out. So now I'm wondering if the word really was "polyphloisbic," which I can find now but which means loud-roaring. Since Gallipoli is in the same area as Troy I imagine the book and/or the poem made some references to the Iliad. I don't know if the poet was trying to coin a word similar to "polyphloisbic" of if I'm not remembering correctly. If anyone has heard of that word, please let me know.
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> Eric Inman
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