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Headword: *)axqofo/ron
Adler number: alpha,4703
Translated headword: burden-bearing
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] carrying.[1]
And [there is] a saying: "[burdens] which not even a hundred Egyptians could lift."[2] For in many places it is recorded that Egyptians were burden-bearing.[3]
Greek Original:
*)axqofo/ron: basta/zonta. kai\ paroimi/a: *ou(\s ou)k a)\n a)/raint' ou)d' e(kato\n *ai)gu/ptioi. pollaxou= ga\r a)xqoforou=ntas tou\s *ai)gupti/ous me/mnhntai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise -- an adjective glossed with a present participle -- in other lexica. The headword, masculine/feminine accusative singular of this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere.
[2] Aristophanes, Frogs 1406 (of corpses and chariots: web address 1 below), with scholion.
[3] cf. e.g. Aristophanes, Birds 1133. Passages such as these appear to reflect awareness of the Pyramids and other Egyptian monuments, as transmitted in book 2 of Herodotus (see esp. 2.124.2-3, 2.136.3-4); cf. alpha 3819.
Associated internet address:
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@22:45:40.
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