δνόφος
έγ', ὦ ταλαίπωρ', αὐτὸς ὧν χρείᾳ πάρει. τὰ πολλὰ γάρ τοι ῥήματ' ἢ τέρψαντά τι, ἢ δυσχεράναντ', ἢ κατοικτίσαντά πως, παρέσχε φωνὴν τοῖς ἀφωνήτοις τινά → Wretched brother, tell him what you need. A multitude of words can be pleasurable, burdensome, or they can arouse pity somehow — they give a kind of voice to the voiceless | Tell him yourself, poor brother, what it is you need! For abundance of words, bringing delight or being full of annoyance or pity, can sometimes lend a voice to those who are speechless.
English (LSJ)
ὁ,
A darkness, dusk, gloom, Simon.37.8: pl., A.Ch.52 (lyr.).—Poet. word, though its collat. form γνόφος (q. v.) occurs in later Prose.
German (Pape)
[Seite 651] ὁ (wie γνόφος u. κνέφας mit νέφος zusammenhängend, vgl. Buttm. Lexil. II, 266), Dunkelheit, Finsterniß; Aesch Ch. 52; Simonid. frg. 50, 8, Schneidew.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
δνόφος: ὁ, ζόφος, σκότος, «μαυράδα», Σιμων. 44˙ καὶ κατὰ πληθ., Αἰσχύλ. Χο. 52˙ - λέξις ποιητ., ἂν καὶ τὸ ἰσοδύναμον αὐτῇ γνόφος ἀπαντᾷ παρὰ μεταγεν. πεζοῖς, Ἀριστ. π. Κόσμ. 2, 13, Λουκ. Περεγρ. 43, κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ου (ὁ) :
obscurité, ténèbres.
Étymologie: cf. κνέφας.
