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Headword: Marpsêi
Adler number: mu,240
Translated headword: snatches
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning she/she/it] seizes, destroys.[1] "But when a crooked-clawed hide-eagle snatches [a serpent...]."[2]
Greek Original:
Marpsêi: sullabêi, diachrêsêtai. all' hopotan marpsêi bursaietos ankulocheilês.
Notes:
[1] The headword is aorist subjunctive -- though (as indicated) not translatable as such into idiomatic English -- of ma/rptw, third person singular. It is presumably extracted from the quotation given, though it also occurs in Homer, Iliad 21.564; and for the first of the glosses cf. Hesychius on ma/ryai in Iliad 22.201.
[2] Aristophanes, Knights 197 (web address 1), a mock-oracle about Kleon (kappa 1731, and cf. beta 593).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; politics; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 May 2008@08:32:12.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (tweaked note, added link, set status) on 20 May 2008@14:36:57.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2) on 21 May 2008@03:17:12.
David Whitehead on 8 May 2013@06:58:50.

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