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Headword:
Embalonta
Adler number: epsilon,935
Translated headword: had directed
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "While he was still a child, he threw a stone at and killed his teacher
Linus, who had directed blows at him in the classroom; [Heracles] was vexed and unwilling to take orders".
Greek Original:Embalonta: ho de pais ôn eti, ton didaskalon Linon plêgas autôi embalonta en têi didaskaliai dusanaschetêsas kai ouk ethelôn archesthai lithôi balôn apekteinen.
Notes:
The headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active participle, masculine accusative singular, of the verb
e)mba/llw (cf.
epsilon 934,
epsilon 936).
As to the quotation itself, Adler suggested
Nicolaus of Damascus, and see now Favuzzi (cited under
delta 404). Compare also
Pausanias 9.29.9: Heracles kills his music teacher
Linus the son of Ismenias; cf.
lambda 568.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; mythology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 26 August 2005@07:14:04.
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