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Headword: Mê prodous hêmas genêi
Adler number: mu,975
Translated headword: do not become one who has betrayed us
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[A phenomenon in] syntax. "Alas, how disheartened I am; and I beseech you by your son and the gods, do not become one who has forsaken us!"
Greek Original:
Mê prodous hêmas genêi: suntaxis. oim', hôs athumô: kai se pros tou sou teknou kai theôn hiknoumai, mê prodous hêmas genêi.
Note:
This entry probably abbreviates a comment which elucidated the syntax in Sophocles, Ajax 587-8, the quotation given (Tecmessa addresses Ajax: web address 1). Porphyrius in Homeric Questions explains the construction as periphrastic for mh\ prodw=|s "do not betray." A scholiast on the passage paraphrases mh\ prodo/ths h(mw=n ge/nh| "do not become a betrayer of us."
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Steven Embree on 12 May 2009@10:11:14.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (expanded note, added link, changed keywords, set status) on 12 May 2009@11:19:55.
David Whitehead (tweaked note; typo) on 13 May 2009@03:13:28.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation, raised status) on 28 January 2011@22:29:41.
David Whitehead on 22 May 2013@04:28:20.
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