Κυάνεαι
βίος ἀνεόρταστος μακρὴ ὁδὸς ἀπανδόκευτος → a life without feasting is a long journey without an inn | a life without festivals is a long journey without inns | a life without festivals is a long road without inns | a life without festivity is a long road without an inn | a life without festivity is like a long road without an inn | a life without holidays is like a long road without taverns | a life without parties is a long journey without inns | a life without public holidays is a long road without hotels
English (LSJ)
(νῆσοι or πέτραι), αἱ,
A Dark-rocks, two small islands at the entrance of the Euxine, Hdt.4.85, D.19.273, Str.7.6.1, cf. Συμπληγάδες: Κυάνεα πελάγη, of the adjacent sea, is f.l. in S.Ant.966. [ῡ, metri gr., S. l. c.]
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Κυάνεαι: (νῆσοι ἢ πέτραι), αἱ, γεν. Κυανεῶν, οὐχὶ Κυανέων, Δινδ. Δημ. 429. 1· ― σκοτειναὶ πέτραι, δύο μικραὶ νῆσοι κατὰ τὴν εἴσοδον τοῦ Εὐξείνου, Ἡρόδ. 4. 85, Στράβ. 319· μυθολογούμεναι ὅτι συνεκλείοντο καὶ συνέτριβον διερχόμενα πλοῖα, ὅθεν ἐκαλοῦντο καὶ Συμπληγάδες, Συνδρομάδες, Πλαγκταί, κτλ.· ἡ δὲ πλησίον θάλασσα ἐκαλεῖτο Κυάνεα πελάγη, Σοφ. Ἀντ. 966. ῡ χάριν τοῦ μέτρου, παρὰ Σοφ. ἔνθ’ ἀνωτ..
