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Knephaios
Adler number: kappa,1860
Translated headword: dusky, in the dark, in the twilight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dark.[1]
[Meaning] invisible, early in the morning, at dawn.[2]
Aristophanes: "bringing it to the
agora in the early-morning darkness I would give it back."[3]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase]
knefai=os h)=lqen ["he/she/it came in the twilight"], meaning under cover of darkness.[4]
"He rose in the twilight and, on his guard, took hold of the yoke of oxen."[5]
Greek Original:Knephaios: skoteinos. aoratos, orthria, heôthinê. Aristophanês: knephaios eis agoran pherous' apodoimên. kai Knephaios êlthen, anti tou hupo skoton. ho de dianastas knephaios kai paraphulaxas tou zeugous tôn boôn epelabeto.
Notes:
Keywords: biography; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 May 2003@19:19:23.
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