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Headword:
Mêchanorraphos
Adler number: mu,1019
Translated headword: device-stitcher
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] inventer of evils, a contriver.[1] One who devises base things. "Slipping in such a wizard as this, a device-stitcher."
Sophocles says [this].[2]
And elsewhere: "so I would always say that the gods devise these things and all things for humans."[3]
Mêchanorraphos: epinoêtês kakôn, kataskeuastês. ta phaula mêchanômenos. hupheis magon toionde mêchanorraphon. Sophoklês phêsi. kai authis: egô men oun kai tauta kai ta pant' aei phaskoim' an anthrôpoisi mêchanan theous.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and in the
scholia to
Sophocles (cf. next note): see the references at
Photius mu433 Theodoridis, where however the editor (like Latte on
Hesychius mu1303 before him) claims the headword as quoted from
Euripides (
Andromache 1116: web address 1).
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 387 (Oedipus referring angrily to Teiresias: web address 2), with comments from the
scholia; quoted also at
mu 25 and
upsilon 720.
[3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 1036-7 (web address 3). These lines include not the headword but the related (and more commonplace) verb
mhxana=n.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: definition; ethics; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 18 July 2009@01:24:29.
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