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Headword:
Tachu
Adler number: tau,200
Translated headword: swiftly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [
*taxu/ is used] instead of
taxe/ws ["swiftly"] in many of the ancient [writers].[1]
In
Homer, however, [one finds]
ta/xista ["very swiftly"] instead of
taxe/ws.[2]
Also, [he writes] "they adjourned the council rapid." Instead of rapidly, swiftly.[3]
Tachu: anti tou tacheôs esti para pollois tôn palaiôn. par' Homêrôi de Tachista, anti tou tacheôs. kai, lusan d' agorên aipsêrên. anti tou aipsêrôs, tacheôs.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in
Photius'
Lexicon (tau91 Theodoridis) , and cf.
Pollux 9.152. The neuter accusative singular of an adjective is used adverbially.
[2] cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 749.3. Here the neuter accusative plural of a superlative is used adverbially.
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 19.276 or
Odyssey 2.257, with
scholia. In this case the adjective agrees with the direct object, in the feminine accusative singular.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 September 2004@21:16:33.
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