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Headword: Konion
Adler number: kappa,2034
Translated headword: hemlock
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
A poisonous plant. [It can be spelled] with omicron[1] for metrical reasons. "For you simply received hemlock at the hands of the Athenians, but it was they who drank it down, through your mouth".[2]
Greek Original:
Konion: botanê dêlêtêrios. dia tou o mikrou dia to metron tou stichou. pros gar Athênaiôn konion men haplôs su edexô: autoi d' exepion touto teôi stomati.
Notes:
[1] Rather than the correct omega, for which cf. kappa 2275.
[2] From Diogenes Laertius' short poem (2.46 = Greek Anthology 9.96) about Socrates (sigma 829).
Keywords: biography; botany; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; law; meter and music; philosophy; poetry
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 November 2006@04:01:12.
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Catharine Roth (added keyword, set status) on 21 November 2006@19:52:04.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 22 November 2006@03:06:23.
David Whitehead on 11 March 2013@07:04:13.
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