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Headword:
Niphostibeis
Adler number: nu,441
Translated headword: snowy
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones which are] wet.[1] "For even things that are terrible and very strong yield to authority. Thus the snowy winter storms give way to fertile summer."
Greek Original:Niphostibeis: diugroi. kai gar ta deina kai ta karterôtata timais hupeikei. touto men niphostibeis cheimônes ekchôrousin eukarpôi therei.
Notes:
Sophocles,
Ajax 669-671 (see web address 1), with scholion.
cf.
epsilon 4028,
epsiloniota 296.
[1] Nominative plural of these adjectives, the headword one extracted from the quotation.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 12 February 2006@01:13:10.
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