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Headword: *baiai/
Adler number: beta,210
Translated headword: little (ones), scanty (ones)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] small [ones].[1]
Also [sc. attested is the masculine singular] baio/s ["scanty"], in the special sense of "one". Sophocles [writes]: "was he traveling 'scanty'[2] or with many men as attendants?"[3]. Also in Captive Women: "I poured a libation from a 'scanty' wine-cup, inasmuch as I was second".[4] And elsewhere: "but he spoke to me scanty things, and the ones always repeated: 'Woman, silence brings credit to women.' And I, understanding, stopped. But he hurried away alone".[5]
Greek Original:
*baiai/: mikrai/. kai\ *baio/s, i)di/ws a)nti\ tou= ei(=s. *sofoklh=s: po/teron e)xw/rei baio\s h)\ pollou\s e)/xwn loxi/tas a)/ndras; kai\ e)n *ai)xmalwti/sin: e)/speisa baia=s ku/likos w(/ste deu/tera. kai\ au)=qis: o( d' ei)=pe pro/s me baia\, a)ei\ d' u(mnou/mena: gu/nai, gunaici\ ko/smon h( sigh\ fe/rei. ka)gw\ maqou=s' e)/lhc': o( d' e)ssu/qh mo/nos.
Notes:
[1] The headword is feminine nominative plural of this adjective. It is presumably quoted from somewhere, but otherwise unattested (if one disregards Baiai/Baeae the Italian toponym).
[2] i.e. "alone".
[3] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 750-751; spoken by Oedipus to Jocasta, concerning Laius.
[4] Sophocles fr.39.
[5] Sophocles, Ajax 292-94 (spoken by Tecmessa to the chorus, concerning Ajax); cf. chi 477, and see generally Tosi [cited under alpha 378] no.295.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy; women
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 8 August 2002@16:58:14.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 9 August 2002@03:18:46.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 24 May 2012@08:49:37.
David Whitehead (expanded n.5) on 15 August 2012@03:20:02.
David Whitehead on 19 September 2015@09:24:14.

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