θόρυβος

Pronunciation

Noun

θόρῠβος • (thórubos) m (genitive θορῠ́βου); second declension

(Attic, Ionic)

1. noise, especially of a crowd of people: uproar, clamor
   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 8.92.7

     ἦν δὲ θόρυβος πολὺς καὶ ἐκπληκτικός

     ên dè thórubos polùs kaì ekplēktikós

     there was a loud and astounding uproar

   • 409 BCE, Sophocles, Philoctetes 1263

     τίς αὖ παρ’ ἄντροις θόρυβος ἵσταται βοῆς;

     tís aû par’ ántrois thórubos hístatai boês?

     • 1932 translation by Sir Richard C. Jebb

       What is this sound of shouting near my cave?

   • 446 BCE – 386 BCE, Aristophanes, The Acharnians 546

     ἦν δ’ ἂν ἡ πόλις πλέα / θορύβου στρατιωτῶν

     ên d’ àn hē pólis pléa / thorúbou stratiōtôn

     the city would be full of the noise of soldiers

   • 310 BCE – 240 BCE, Callimachus, Aetia Oxy..2079.30
2. tumult, confusion, trouble
   • 460 BCE – 420 BCE, Herodotus, Histories 7.181.1

     ἡ δὲ Αἰγιναίη, τῆς ἐτριηράρχεε Ἀσωνίδης, καὶ τινά σφι θόρυβον παρέσχε

     hē dè Aiginaíē, tês etriērárkhee Asōnídēs, kaì tiná sphi thórubon paréskhe

     The Aeginetan trireme, of which Asonides was captain, did however give them some trouble.

   • 460 BCE – 395 BCE, Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War 4.104

     οἱ Ἀμφιπολῖται ἐς θόρυβον μέγαν κατέστησαν

     hoi Amphipolîtai es thórubon mégan katéstēsan

     The people of Amphipolis were put into great confusion

References

• θόρυβος in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Noun

θόρυβος • (thóryvos) m (plural θόρυβοι)

1. noise, racket
2. (figuratively) commotion, stir