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Headword:
Deilê
opsia
Adler number: delta,314
Translated headword: late afternoon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [part of the day] around the setting of the sun. [sc. By contrast]
dei/lh prwi/a ["early afternoon" is] the hour before lunch, or after lunch.[1]
Xenophon [writes]: "when it was afternoon, a dust cloud appeared."[2]
And it is declined
dei/lhs ["of the afternoon"].
Greek Original:Deilê opsia: hê peri dusin hêliou. Deilê prôïa, hê pro aristou hôra, ê meta to ariston. Xenophôn: hênika de deilê egeneto, ephanê koniortos. kai klinetai deilês.
Notes:
See the general note at
delta 306.
[1] On
a)/riston see LSJ s.v.
[2]
Xenophon,
Anabasis 1.8.8 (web address 1 below); cf.
delta 315.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; historiography
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 10 September 2002@00:23:18.
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