ἀνορούω
anorouō

Greek verb

Last edited: 2024-12-17
Primary meaning to rise
Literal translation to spring up
Variants
ἀνορούω anorouō
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to rise astronomical event

Ἠέλιος δ’ ἀνόρουσε, λιπὼν περικαλλέα λίμνην, οὐρανὸν ἐς πολύχαλκον, ἵν’ ἀθανάτοισι φαείνοι καὶ θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσιν ἐπὶ ζείδωρον ἄρουραν.

‘The sun sprang up, leaving the very beautiful sea, into the heaven wrought of bronze, to shine for the immortals and the mortal men upon the wheat-giving land.’

— Homer, Odyssey 3.1-3

Genre: epic
Date: 8th century BCE

Homer. 1919. Homer. The Odyssey with an English translation by A.T. Murray, Ph.D. in two volumes, ed. A.T. Murray. Cambridge Massachusetts: Harvard University Press & London: William Heinemann.


Cite this entry
APA (7th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀνορούω (Lemma #350). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/

Chicago (Author-Date)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀνορούω (Lemma #350). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/

MLA (9th)
Peeters, T. (2024). ἀνορούω (Lemma #350). The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/

Harvard
Peeters, T. (2024) ἀνορούω (Lemma #350), The ZODIAC Glossary: A Cross-Cultural Glossary of Ancient Astral Science. Available at: https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/ (Accessed: December 1, 2025).

BibTeX
@misc{zodiac350,
	note = {[Online; accessed 2025-12-01]},
	author = {Peeters, Thomas},
	year = {2024},
	title = {ἀνορούω ({Lemma} #350)},
	url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/},
	howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/350/},
}