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Headword: Arrêton
Adler number: alpha,3860
Translated headword: accursed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] something harmful.[1]
But a)/rrhton lo/gon ["unspeakable word"] [means] a bad word, one which should not be spoken. Sophocles [writes]: "how on earth do I tell an unspeakable story?"[2] Having written [of] or even done something more unspeakable than unspeakable things and beyond evils.
"Who then would not hate an excess of unspeakable behaviour which surpassed [all] others?"[3]
The word is applied also to that which is incomprehensible, such as "unspeakable [is] the miracle of your conception, o you of virgin birth."[4]
Greek Original:
Arêton: to blaberon. Arrêton de logon, kakophêmon, mê rhêthênai opheilonta. Sophoklês: pôs dêta legô logon arrêton. arrêtôn arrêtoteron kai kakôn pera gegraphôs ê kai peprachôs. tis oun ou misêseien huperbolên arrêtourgias heterois mê apoleleiphthai; lambanetai de hê lexis kai epi akatalêpsiai, hôs to: arrêton to thauma tês sês kuêseôs, mêtroparthene.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 17.37, where the neuter singular headword occurs. The adjective a)rhto/s -- literally prayed against, and so accursed -- is the Ionic dialect version of a)rato/s [the SOL headword for the present entry is wrong in giving it double rho], and hence potentially confusable with the word to which the remainder of the entry will turn: a)/rrhtos, literally unspoken, and so unspeakable.
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 214 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[3] An approximation of Julian, Oration 7 (210d Hertlein); cf. pi 1029.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; gender and sexuality; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 August 2001@18:32:59.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 15 August 2001@03:39:04.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; betacode and other cosmetics) on 11 April 2012@09:33:55.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 24 January 2014@07:24:44.
David Whitehead on 31 August 2015@04:15:07.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 23 October 2015@00:17:34.

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