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Headword: *)=hn
Adler number: eta,366
Translated headword: I was
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Instead of h)/mhn.[1]
Aristophanes in Wealth [writes]: "but I, although I was a pious and just man, fared badly and was a poor man."[2]
And the Pisidian [writes]: "for I also was one of those who are driven to cry out."[3]
Also [sc. attested is] h)=n ["I was"], [meaning] I existed;[4] [used] with a dative.[5]
Greek Original:
*)=hn: a)nti\ tou= h)/mhn. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: e)gw\ de\ qeosebh\s kai\ di/kaios w)\n a)nh\r kakw=s e)/pratton kai\ pe/nhs h)=n. kai\ *pisi/dhs: ka)gw\ ga\r ei(=s h)=n tw=n boa=n h)peigme/nwn. kai\ *)=hn, u(ph=rxon. dotikh=|.
Notes:
[1] The older form of the first person singular imperfect of ei)mi/ is h)=n. Cf. scholia on Plato Sophist 243B and Aristophanes, Plutus 29; also Photius and Hesychius. See also eta 5, eta 321, eta 568.
[2] Aristophanes, Plutus 28-9.
[3] George of Pisidia, Heraclias 3 fr. 56.
[4] cf. scholion on Homer, Iliad 2.77; also Photius and Hesychius.
[5] Similar comment in other syntactical sources.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 September 2006@19:50:34.
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