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Headword: Ohion
Adler number: omicroniota,147
Translated headword: as
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The correlative of toiou=ton ["such"], and the [word] used in examples, and the [word] used in exclamation. As in: for there is nothing like hearing the law itself. Demosthenes in the [speech] Against Meidias [writes]: "nothing is as good as hearing the law itself."[1]
And elsewhere: "when how violent a wind blew on [them] and stirred up the sand."[2] And elsewhere: "the serpents curling their hindmost parts into coils and standing up and looking with what a fiery glance."[3]
And expressing amazement: "Demophilos the patriarch of Constantinople was such a man as to mix everything together in a disorderly rush like a wild torrent, gathering a great heap of rubbish."[4]
Greek Original:
Ohion: to antapodotikon [tou] toiouton, kai to epi paradeigmatôn paralambanomenon, kai to epi thaumasmou. hôs to, ouden gar hoion to akouein autou tou nomou. Dêmosthenês en tôi kata Meidiou. ouden houtôs kalon, hoion to akouein autou tou nomou. kai authis: anemou epipneusantos hoiou sphodrotatou kai exarantos tên ammon. kai authis: hoi de drakontes ta ouraia merê es speiras helixantes kai epanistamenoi kai pur horôntes hoion oxutaton. epi de thaumasmou: anthrôpos ên ho Dêmophilos, ho patriarchês Kônstantinou poleôs, hoios empesôn homou sumpanta phurein akosmôi phorai, kathaper ataktos cheimarrous polun ton surpheton agôn.
Notes:
cf. omicroniota 146, omicroniota 153, omicroniota 154, omicroniota 155, omicroniota 156.
[1] Demosthenes 21.46 (web address 1); cf. omicron 784.
[2] Aelian fr. 336b Domingo-Forasté (339 Hercher).
[3] Aelian fr. 250c Domingo-Forasté (252 Hercher); cf. epsilon 215, omicron 944.
[4] Philostorgius, as at delta 470. Kuster pointed out that "amazement" is not appropriate here; this is more like oi(=os expressing fitness or ability (LSJ s.v. III, cf. omicroniota 153, omicroniota 156).
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; imagery; law; religion; rhetoric; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 November 2004@00:18:05.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more x-refs and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 November 2004@06:09:28.
David Whitehead (tweaked tr) on 20 February 2006@03:10:12.
David Whitehead (another x-ref) on 28 May 2010@05:24:07.
Catharine Roth (updated references, upgraded link) on 1 June 2011@22:58:59.
David Whitehead on 11 August 2011@08:21:02.
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