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Headword: Knephei
Adler number: kappa,1861
Translated headword: at dusk, at twilight
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] in darkness. From the nominative kne/fos.[1] Thus Aelian [sc. uses the word].[2]
"Not according to your word will I scrape each phrase, but from your lekythion I will destroy the prologues."[3]
Greek Original:
Knephei: skotei. apo tês knephos eutheias. houtôs Ailianos. ou kat' epos ge sou knisô to rhêm' hekaston, all' apo lêkuthiou sou tous prologous diaphtherô.
Notes:
[1] See also kappa 1859, kappa 1860.
[2] Aelian fr. 156 Domingo-Forasté (153 Hercher).
[3] Aristophanes Frogs 1198-1200, from lambda 436. It has no connection with the present headword; Aemilius Portus (edition of 1630) referred it to kappa 1874, where the verb kni/zw ["I scrape"] is discussed.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 11 December 2008@01:03:31.
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David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 11 December 2008@03:06:33.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 8 November 2012@02:09:18.
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