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Headword:
*)/ayorroi
Adler number: alpha,4737
Translated headword: going backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning ones who/which are] hastening backwards.[1]
"[Will you] not [get] out? [Will you] not set your foot going backwards?" Ajax says [this] to Tecmessa, his spear-won bride.[2]
Greek Original:*)/ayorroi: o)pisqo/rmhtoi. ou)k e)kto/s; ou)k a)/yorron e)knemh=| po/da; *ai)/as le/gei pro\s *te/kmhssan, th\n ai)xma/lwton gunai=ka.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica. The headword, nominative plural of this adjective, is not extracted from the quotation given (which has the accusative singular) but from
Homer,
Iliad 21.456 (web address 1); see the
scholia there.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 368 (web address 2), with scholion.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 June 2001@00:03:52.
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