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Headword: *xri/mptetai
Adler number: chi,518
Translated headword: comes near; touches
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

[Meaning he/she/it] rubs against, nears, draws nigh.[1]
"If some happiness touches those who have perished."[2]

Greek Original:

*xri/mptetai: proskna=tai, pela/zei, e)ggi/zei. ei) dh/ tis fqime/nois xri/mptetai eu)frosu/nh.

Notes:

[1] = Synagoge chi125; cf. Hesychius chi744, and esp. the scholia to Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 84, where the headword occurs. See also epsilon 4044.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.23.6 (Antipater of Sidon), on Anakreon (cf. alpha 1916); cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 15); (vol. II, 43-44); and further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 3777, mu 437, and tau 393. See also beta 110 and delta 705, additional lines which have been suggested to conclude this epigram.

References:

A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)

Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2008@05:47:46.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 6 April 2008@08:01:39.
William Hutton (Augmented notes, added keyword) on 23 August 2013@17:39:10.
David Whitehead on 13 November 2013@08:27:16.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 12 June 2021@13:02:43.

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