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Headword: Deinos
Adler number: delta,343
Translated headword: terrible; terribly clever
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] knavish, capable, unswayed by flattery, wise, experienced.[1]
"You [are] terribly clever at speaking, but I am bad at learning from you. For I have found you ill-minded and harsh towards me." The sense: you are terribly clever in speaking, but I do not listen to you with goodwill because of your hostility.[2]
Greek Original:
Deinos: panourgos, hikanos, akolakeutos, sophos, empeiros. legein su deinos, manthanein d' egô kakos sou: dusmenê gar kai barun s' heurêk' emoi. ho nous: su men deinos ei en tôi legein, egô de ou met' eunoias sou akouô dia tên dusmeneian.
Notes:
cf. generally delta 331, delta 332, delta 340, delta 344.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 545-6 (web address 1 below), with comment from the scholia there; cf. lambda 223.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 December 2003@15:51:45.
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David Whitehead (x-ref; cosmetics) on 21 December 2003@08:19:53.
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