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Headword:
Êinigmenos
Adler number: eta,386
Translated headword: riddled
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] spoken with a riddle.[1] Having the meaning [not] clear there, inasmuch as the oracles were uttered indirectly. "And intricately somehow and cleverly riddled." As saying some things but meaning others.[2]
Greek Original:Êinigmenos: meta ainigmatos lelegmenos. autothi phaneron echôn ton noun, par' hoson hoi chrêsmoi loxôs exepheronto. kai poikilôs pôs kai sophôs êinigmenos. hoion alla men legôn, alla de noôn.
Notes:
[1] The headword (extracted from the quotation given) is perfect middle/passive participle, masculine nominative singular, of
ai)ni/ttw/
ai)ni/ssw; cf.
alphaiota 220,
alphaiota 226.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Knights 196 (web address 1), with scholion (the latter supplying the 'not' which is missing here).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 October 2006@01:07:45.
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