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Headword:
Dôrêton
Adler number: delta,1456
Translated headword: freely-given
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which is being given as a gift.[1] The tragedy [says]: "How much envy you are keeping, as for the sake of this office, which the city gave to me freely-given [and] unsought, Kreon, who has been my trusted friend from the beginning, has sneaked up on me stealthily and desires to cast me out."[2]
Greek Original:Dôrêton: to hôs dôron didomenon. hê tragôidia: hosos par' humin ho phthonos phulassetai: hoion têsde g' archês hounech', hên emoi polis dôrêton ouk aitêton eisecheirise, tautês Kreôn ho pistos houx archês philos, lathra m' hupelthôn ekbalein himeiretai.
Notes:
[1] Neuter nominative/accusative singular. Cf.
delta 1457, where this verbal adjective is used of a person.
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 382-386 (web address 1), with scholion; cf.
chi 245.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 March 2005@22:36:56.
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