Nyseusとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈnyː.sɛu̯s]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈniː.s̬eu̯s]

固有名詞

Nȳse͡us m (genitive *Nȳseī or *Nȳseos)

1. a name of Bacchus, literally it means "person from Nysa"
   • Publius Ovidius Naso, metamorphoses, liber IV. In: Ovid Metamorphoses with an English translation by Frank Justus Miller. In two Volumes I Books I–VIII, 1951, p. 178f.:

     pārent mātrēsque nurūsque
     tēlāsque calathōsque īnfectaque pēnsa repōnunt
     tūraque dant Bacchumque vocant Bromiumque Lyaeumque
     ignigenamque satumque iterum sōlumque bimātrem ;
     additur hīs Nȳseus indētōnsusque Thyōneus
     et cum Lēnaeō geniālis cōnsitor ūvae
     Nycteliusque Eleleusque parēns et Iacchus et Euhān,
     et quae praetereā per Graiās plūrima gentēs
     nōmina, Līber, habēs.

     The matrons and young wives all obey, put by weaving and work-baskets, leave their tasks unfinished ; they burn incense, calling on Bacchus, naming him also Bromius, Lyaeus, son of the thunderbolt, twice born, child of two mothers ; they hail him as Nyseus also, Thyoneus of the unshorn locks, Lenaeus, planter of the joy-giving vine, Nyctelius, father Eleleus, Iacchus, and Euhan, and all the many names besides by which thou art known, O Liber, throughout the towns of Greece.

     "The noisy one."

     "The deliverer from care."

     "Of Nysa," a city in India, connected traditionally with the infancy of Bacchus.

     "Son of Thyone," the name given to his mother, Semele, after her translation to the skies.

     "God of the wine-press."

     So named from the fact that his orgies were celebrated in the night.

     From the wild cries uttered by his worshippers in the orgies.

     A name identified with Bacchus.

     Either from liber, " the free," or from libo, " he to whom libations of wine are poured."

参照

• “Nȳseus (dissyl.), s.v. Nȳsa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “Nȳseūs”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1050.