Saturday, March 11, 2023
Lupus Est Homo Homini
Homer, Iliad 4.471-472 (tr. Peter Green):
Francis A. Wood, "Iteratives, Blends, and 'Streckformen'," Modern Philology 9.2 (October, 1911) 157-194 (at 164) accepts the derivation from δονέω plus πάλλω (both meaning shake) and classifies it under the heading "Iterative Compounds of Synonymous Words."
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Like wolvesW. Beck on δνοπαλίζω in Lexikon des frühgriechischen Epos: Heinrich Ebeling on δνοπαλίζω in Lexicon Homericum: Ebeling's reference to Rumpf is to Heinrich Rumpf, "Ueber die Bedeutung und Ableitung von δνοπαλίζω," Neue Jahrbücher für Philologie und Paedagogik 73 (1856) 268-274. His reference to "Duentz." is to H. Düntzer, "Homerische etymologieen (Fortsetzung)," Zeitschrift für vergleichende Sprachforschung 14.3 (1865) 181-215 (at 210-212).
they sprang one at another, and fighter battered fighter.
οἳ δὲ λύκοι ὣς
ἀλλήλοις ἐπόρουσαν, ἀνὴρ δ᾽ ἄνδρ᾽ ἐδνοπάλιζεν.
Francis A. Wood, "Iteratives, Blends, and 'Streckformen'," Modern Philology 9.2 (October, 1911) 157-194 (at 164) accepts the derivation from δονέω plus πάλλω (both meaning shake) and classifies it under the heading "Iterative Compounds of Synonymous Words."