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Headword: *)/eolpa
Adler number: epsilon,1874
Translated headword: I hope, I expect
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] I was hoping. Imperfect tense.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] e)/orga ["I have wrought"], [meaning] I worked, [also] imperfect.[2]
Greek Original:
*)/eolpa: h)/lpizon. paratatiko/s. kai\ *)/eorga, ei)rgasa/mhn, paratatiko/s.
Notes:
Actually both e)/olpa and e)/orga are old perfect-tense forms, with o-grade of the respective roots (*welp-, *werg-).
[1] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 20.186.
[2] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 3.57.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 November 2002@19:26:00.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 16 November 2002@08:25:12.
Catharine Roth (added notes) on 16 November 2002@12:05:21.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 17 November 2002@21:18:54.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 25 September 2012@07:04:45.
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