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A Nonnian Problem

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2009

Giuseppe Giangrande
Giuseppe Giangrande
Affiliation:
Birkbeck College, University of London
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Review Article
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The Classical Review , Volume 15 , Issue 1 , March 1965 , pp. 18 - 19
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1965

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1 Rouse's rendering (in his Loeb edition of Nonnus) of γλαυκά at ii. 45 as ‘tawny’ is erroneous: γλαυκός could never denote such a colour. Whether at xliii. 265 (γλαυκὰ θαλασσαίης ἐπεμάστιε νῶτα λεαίνης) γλαυκά means ‘gleaming’ (as I think) or ‘greeny’ (as Rouse takes it; because covered with sea-weed?) is best left to zoologists to decide. At vii. 249 γλαυκά clearly means ‘sparkling’, as correctly seen by Rouse (the wording γλαυκὰ … λεύσσω is probably an echo, in Nonnus, of grammarians' etymologies; cf. Thes., s.v. γλαυκός).