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Headword: *kataspei/ras
Adler number: kappa,781
Translated headword: having sown
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone] having provided a source of misfortunes. For the [term] "having sown" must apply to a great number of misfortunes. "How many troubles you [Ajax] have sown for me in dying." Sophocles [sc. says this].[1]
Greek Original:
*kataspei/ras: a)rxh\n kakw=n parasxw/n. to\ ga\r spei/ras e)pi\ plh/qous kakw=n takte/on. o(/sas a)ni/as moi kataspei/ras fqi/neis. *sofoklh=s.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active participle, masculine nominative singular, of the compound verb kataspei/rw (kappa 782).
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 1005, with a gloss from the scholia vetera thereto. Compare also the scholia to Ajax 1000 in Dindorf (below, p. 226.23–24): o(/swn lupw=n a)formh\n dou/s ("How much distress you have given occasion to"). In this scene, Teucer laments the suicide of his half-brother Ajax and the hopeless situation it has created for himself. The preverb kata- should perhaps be seen merely as an intensifier. Cf. Kamerbeek (below ad loc.): "not 'having strewn over me', but 'having sown for me'." Also, compare LSJ s.v. 1, citing this line, and 2.II. Other uses of the verb: Euripides, Hercules 469; Plutarch, Theseus 3.2, Demetrius 4.2, etc.
References:
Dindorf, G., ed. Scholia in Sophoclis Tragoedias Septem, ex Codicibus Aucta et Emendata. Vol. II. Oxonii: E Typographeo Academico, 1852
Kamerbeek, J.C. The Plays of Sophocles. Commentaries: Part I. The Ajax. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1983
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Translated by: Edward Whitehouse on 13 September 2008@13:55:55.
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