Archive for March, 2014

7 Iliad 36

March 30, 2014

αλλ’ αγε, πως μεμονας πολεμον καταπαυσεμεν ανδρων;

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μεμονας: perfect μαω, in general to be eager, anxious ready.. this line sighted under [6], “to be minded or inclined, to purpose, design”. καταπαυσεμεν is future infinitive.

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But come, how have you purposed to put an end to this war between men?

March 29, 2014

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March 28, 2014

Ten times the size of Niagara, Dry Falls is thought to be the greatest known waterfall that ever existedDry Falls, Missoula Floods

On 1 May 1707, under the Act of Union, two of her realms, the kingdoms of England and Scotland, were united as a single sovereign state, the Kingdom of Great Britain…. Queen Anne

Apart from the Spanish territories of Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla on the coast of Morocco, and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic, it is the only country in Africa whose de jure official language is SpanishEquatorial Guinea

Exodus I, 8-9

March 26, 2014

Ανεστη δε βασιλευς ετερος επ’ Αιγυπτον, ος ουκ ηδει τον Ιωσηφ. ειπεν δε τω εθνει αυτου “Ιδου το γενος των υιων Ισραηλ μεγα πληθος και ισχυει υπερ ημας.”

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υπερ ημας: “A frequent use of υπερ in the LXX to express comparison is due to the fact that the Hebrew language has no special form for the comparitive degree” (Conybeare/Stock, sect. 94). ισχυει < ισχυω: to be strong, mighty, powerful, prevail.

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And another king rose over Egypt, who did not know Joseph. And he said to his people, Behold, the generation of the sons of Israel (has become) a great crowd and is stronger than us.

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King James: Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph. And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

March 25, 2014

μετ’ αλλων λεξο εταιρων
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Od. 10.320
“Ερχεο νυν συφεονδε· μετ’ αλλων λεξο εταιρων.”

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συφεονδε: ‘to the sty.” λεξο (or λεξεο):
aor. imp. mid. of λεγω1: lay
oneself down, lay down, take rest.

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“Go now to the sty. Lay down with your other companions.” (Circe to Odysseus)

March 24, 2014

Northern California…. Northern California is not a formal geographic designation. California’s north-south midway division is around 37° latitude, near the level of San Francisco. Popularly, though, “Northern California” usually refers to the state’s northernmost 48 counties. The term is also applied to the area north of the Tehachapi Mountains.
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March 24, 2014

taiga ; condyle ; “swayback

Gandywalkers

March 22, 2014

The 42nd Parallel:

The brakeman said they’d have to get the body off the train. They laid him down flat in the ditch beside the ballast with his hat over his face. Mac asked the brakeman if he had a spade so that they could bury him. so that the buzzards wouldn’t get him, but he said no, the gandywalkers would find him and bury him. He took Mac back to the caboose and gave him a drink and asked him all about how the old man had died.

“Gandy dancer” as wiki has it (here), a railway worker responsible for track maintenance. The “ballast” is the bed of gravel they lay the track on. (wiki).

to kicke against the prickes

March 19, 2014

Apparently the earliest use of the English word “kick.” Book of Acts 26:14 (King James):

And when wee were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking vnto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? It is hard for thee to kicke against the prickes.

The Greek, as I have it, for the last sentence is:

σκληρον σοι προς κεντρα λακτιζειν

where κεντρον (n.) is “sting, goad”, and λακτιζω is “kick.” On a speculative note, I wonder if technically this could be taken as an infinitive-with-accusative-subject construction, which would yield a translation more like “Difficulty kicks you with its goads” (the “with” arising from προς + accusative] though it’d be hard to explain the dative personal pronoun in that case.

March 18, 2014

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March 17, 2014

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