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Headword:
*)episxw/n
Adler number: epsilon,2655
Translated headword: holding back
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one who/which is] controlling, slowing.
Sophocles [writes]: "but you, o sun charioting across the steep sky, when you look upon my paternal land, holding back the gold-backed rein, announce my folly and my fate to my aged father."[1]
*)episxw/n: krath/sas, bradu/nas. *sofoklh=s: su\ d', w)= to\n ai)pu\n ou)rano\n difrhlatw=n h(/lie, patrw/|an th\n e)mh\n o(/tan xqo/na i)/dh|s, e)pisxw\n xruso/nwton h(ni/an, a)/ggeilon a)/tas ta\s e)ma\s mo/ron t' e)mo\n ge/ronti patri/.
Notes:
The headword participle, in the masculine nominative singular, might be extracted from the quotation given (though at
Hesychius epsilon5287, where it is glossed with
prosa/gwn, Latte claims it as quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 9.489; cf. next note.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 845-849 (web address 1), in the
scholia to which the initial gloss here is also attested. See also
delta 1292,
alphaiota 274.
Web address 1
Keywords: children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; military affairs; mythology; poetry; religion; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 9 December 2007@12:46:52.
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