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Headword: 
*to/ 
toi 
polu\ 
Adler number: tau,882
Translated headword: the great
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[The great] and never ceasing [and] true word, o stranger, I want to hear:" that is, the evil which cannot be washed out, I want to hear about the fulfillment[1] of Oedipus.
 Greek Original:*to/ toi polu\ kai\ mhdama\ lh=gon xrh/|zw, ce/n', o)rqo\n a)/kousm' a)kou=sai: toute/sti to\ a)neca/leipton kako/n, to\ kata\ th\n plh/rwsin xrh/|zw a)kou=sai tou= *oi)di/podos. 
Notes: 
Sophocles, 
Oedipus at Colonus 516-517, with scholion to 516. The first three words of this (with a particle, 
toi, untranslated here) are formatted by Adler as the entry's lemma.
[1] This noun should be not 
plh/rwsin but 
ph/rwsin ("maiming, blinding").
 
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 February 2014@18:39:19.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (expanded note; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics; raised status) on 25 February 2014@05:11:35.
 
  
      
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