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Headword:
*)aliparh=
Adler number: alpha,1239
Translated headword: miserable, unfit for a suppliant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning wretched. Or importunate, out of which [sc. comes the idea that] we will importune [
liparh/somen] him.
Sophocles [writes]: "and from poor me, these things small but nonetheless wh' I have, give him: this miserable hair, and my girdle, not wrought with daintiness."[1]
*)aliparh=: a)nti\ tou= au)xmhra/n. h)\ liparh=, e)c h(=s au)to\n liparh/somen. *sofoklh=s: ka)mou= talai/nhs smikra\ me\n ta/d', a)ll' o(/mws a(/xw, do\s au)tw=| th/nd' a)liparh= tri/xa kai\ zw=ma tou)mo/n, ou) xlidai=s h)skhme/non.
Notes:
The headword, feminine accusative singular of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 450-452, with scholion; cf.
alpha 4709,
zeta 131.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 May 2000@13:56:28.
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