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Headword:
Nun
Adler number: nu,602
Translated headword: now
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A temporal adverb.[1]
"Now you must send every last line from from yourself, and brandish a fervid spirit and ineluctable arguments by which you may overcome this person; for he is a versatile man, and one who fashions undifficult pathways out of difficulties." 'Line' [is] rope. He is speaking figuratively as though in reference to a mast: you must manipulate all the riggings for the sake of [over]coming him.[2]
Greek Original:Nun: chronikon epirrêma. nun dei se panta dê kalôn exienai seautou, kai lêma thourion phorein kai logous aphuktous, hotoisi tond' huperbalêi: poikilos gar hanêr kak tôn amêchanôn porous eumêchanous porizôn. Kalôn, schoinion. tropikôs de hôs epi tou histou legei, dei ta armena panta kinein huper tou genesthai autou.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.59, where it occurs; similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 756-759 (chorus), with scholion to 756; cf.
kappa 259.
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 October 2009@02:59:24.
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