ἐπιδύνω
Last edited: 2025-02-03
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“Ζεύ κύδιστε μέγιστε κελαινεφὲς αἰθέρι ναίων μὴ πρὶν ἐπ’ ἠέλιον δῦναι καὶ ἐπὶ κνέφας ἐλθεῖν πρίν με κατὰ πρηνὲς βαλέειν Πριάμοιο μέλαθρον αἰθαλόεν, πρῆσαι δὲ πυρὸς δηΐοιο θύρετρα, Ἑκτόρεον δὲ χιτῶνα περὶ στήθεσσι δαΐξαι χαλκῷ ῥωγαλέον (...)”
‘“Zeus, noblest one, greatest one, black with clouds, dwelling in the sky, grant that the sun does not set and darkness does not come, before I have overthrown headlong down the roof of Priam, black of smoke, and burned with ravaging fire the door, and torn around the breast the tunic of Hector, cleft with bronze (...)”’
Τὼς δ’ ἀστὴρ παρεὼν ῥέζει σφετέροιο κατ’ οἴκου, ἐς λίβ’ ὅτ’ ἂν δυτικῷ κέντρῳ κατόπισθ’ ἐπιδύνῃ.
‘And in this way does a planet act that is in its own house, when it sets to the west behind the western cardinal point.’
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@misc{zodiac493,
note = {[Online; accessed 2026-07-04]},
author = {Peeters, Thomas},
year = {2025},
title = {ἐπιδύνω ({Lemma} #493)},
url = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/493/},
howpublished = {https://zodiacglossary.github.io/lemma/493/},
}