TR5.1107 Thĕ láurĕr-crównĕd Phébŭs wíth hĭs héetĕ
TR5.1108 Găn, ín hĭs cóurs ăy úpwărd ás hĕ wéntĕ,
TR5.1109 Tŏ wármĕn óf the ĕst sé thĕ wáwĕs wéetĕ,
TR5.1110 Ănd Nýsŭs dóughtĕr sóng wĭth fréssh ĕnténtĕ,
TR5.1111 Whăn Tróĭlús hĭs Pándăre áftĕr séntĕ;
TR5.1112 Ănd ón thĕ wállĕs óf thĕ tówn thĕy pléydĕ,
TR5.1113 Tŏ lóke ĭf théy kăn sén ăught óf Crĭséydĕ.

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• Differences among the manuscripts and editions:
• English translations (Windeatt: 1998): The laurel-crowned Phoebus, as he went ever upward in his course, was beginning to warm the wet waves of the eastern sea, and the daughter of Nisus sang with fresh endeavour, when Troilus sent for Pandarus, and they amused themselves on the town walls, to see if they could see anything of Criseyde.
• Japanese translations (Sasamoto: 2012): 月桂冠を戴いたフォイボスが、行く道を絶えず昇りながら、その熱で東の海の水波を温め出すと、ニーソスの娘たる雲雀が爽やかな心で歌い始めた。その時刻トロイルスはパンダルスを迎えに人を遣った。二人とは何とかクリセイデの姿を見ることができるかどうか確かめるために、町の城壁の上できを紛らわしながら待った。
• Chinese translations (Fang: 1956): 桂冠的费白斯上升，照热了东海的浪涛，乃塞斯的女儿，云雀，兴奋地歌唱，这时特罗勒斯请了彭大瑞来；他俩上城头游散，看看有无克丽西德的影迹。

Word Information

• Etymology: OE
• Addresser: Narrator
• Addressee: N/A
• Adjectives with which juxtaposed: N/A
• Counterpart in its source (Fil): 7.1
• Noun(s) (NPs) modified: sea or ocean (waves)
• Attributive/ Predicative: predicative

Information in Previous Studies

• OED: 1. Consisting of moisture, liquid. Chiefly as a pleonastic rhetorical epithet of water or tears. (s.v. wet, adj.)
• MED: 1. (a) Consisting of moisture, flowing, fluid, wet, liquid;—freq. used pleonastically of liquid substances: ~ se (teres), reines (teres, wateres, etc.) ~; (s.v. wē̆t,adj.)

• Commented in other previous works:
• Windeatt (2003: 315): weete: wet
• Fisher (1989: 521): wawes wete: wet waves
• Benson (1987): N/A
• Davis et al. (1979): Not quoted
• Donaldson (1975): N/A
• Baugh (1963): N/A

Possible Definitions

(of waves) wet

Comments from the Editor

See my comment of ‘fresh’ (adj., Tr5.1110).