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Headword:
Nômôn
Adler number: nu,550
Translated headword: observing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning someone] judging, examining. "O Teiresias observing everything" --
Sophocles [writes] -- "[taught and] unspoken, celestial and earth-treading".[1]
Greek Original:Nômôn: krinôn, exetazôn. ô panta nômôn Teiresia. Sophoklês: arrêta t' ourania te kai chthonostibê.
Notes:
The headword -- present participle, masculine nominative/vocative singular, of the epic/poetic verb
nwma/w (for its full range of meanings see LSJ s.v.) -- is extracted from the quotation given. Cf.
nu 547,
nu 548.
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 300-301 (abridged: cf. web address 1), with scholion. For Teiresias see
tau 453.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 September 2008@06:55:43.
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