{"id":2427,"date":"2018-08-17T17:56:18","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/97-picturesque-words\/"},"modified":"2018-08-17T17:56:18","modified_gmt":"2018-08-17T16:56:18","slug":"97-picturesque-words","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/chapter\/97-picturesque-words\/","title":{"raw":"97. <i>Picturesque Words<\/i>.","rendered":"97. <i>Picturesque Words<\/i>."},"content":{"raw":" <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/215\" target=\"new\">197<\/a><\/span> <p>Who is ignorant of Homer's \u03a0\u03b7\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9 \u03b5\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd? Yet in some Greek Hexameters (MSS) we have met with a compound epithet, which may compete with it for the prize of excellence in \"<i>flashing<\/i> on the mental eye\" a complete image \u2014 It is an epithet of the brutified archangel (see p. 12) and forms the latter half of the Hexameter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u039a\u03b5\u03f1\u03f0\u03bf\u03f0\u03b5\u03f1\u03ce\u03bd\u03c5\u03c7\u03b1 \u03a3\u1fb6\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd.<\/p>\n<p>Ye youthful bards! compare this word with it's literal translation, \"Tail-horn-hoofed Satan\" and be shy of compound epithets, the component parts of which are indebted for their union exclusively to the printer's hyphen. Henry More indeed would have naturalized the word without hesitation, and <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Cercoceronychous<\/span> would have shared the astonishment of the English reader in the glossary to his Song of the Soul, with <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Achronycul, Anaisth\u00e6sie<\/span>, &amp;c. &amp;c.<\/p>\n \n","rendered":"<p> <span class=\"page-num\"><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Page:Omniana.djvu\/215\" target=\"new\">197<\/a><\/span> <\/p>\n<p>Who is ignorant of Homer&#8217;s \u03a0\u03b7\u03bb\u03b9\u03bf\u03bd \u03b5\u03b9\u03bd\u03bf\u03c3\u03b9 \u03b5\u03c5\u03bb\u03bb\u03bf\u03bd? Yet in some Greek Hexameters (MSS) we have met with a compound epithet, which may compete with it for the prize of excellence in &#8220;<i>flashing<\/i> on the mental eye&#8221; a complete image \u2014 It is an epithet of the brutified archangel (see p. 12) and forms the latter half of the Hexameter.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u039a\u03b5\u03f1\u03f0\u03bf\u03f0\u03b5\u03f1\u03ce\u03bd\u03c5\u03c7\u03b1 \u03a3\u1fb6\u03c4\u03b1\u03bd.<\/p>\n<p>Ye youthful bards! compare this word with it&#8217;s literal translation, &#8220;Tail-horn-hoofed Satan&#8221; and be shy of compound epithets, the component parts of which are indebted for their union exclusively to the printer&#8217;s hyphen. Henry More indeed would have naturalized the word without hesitation, and <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Cercoceronychous<\/span> would have shared the astonishment of the English reader in the glossary to his Song of the Soul, with <span style=\"font-variant:small-caps\">Achronycul, Anaisth\u00e6sie<\/span>, &amp;c. &amp;c.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":97,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[48],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-2427","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry","chapter-type-numberless"],"part":27,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2428,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2427\/revisions\/2428"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/27"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/2427\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=2427"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/books.pjjk.net\/omniana\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=2427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}