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Headword: *muxo/s
Adler number: mu,1496
Translated headword: cranny, nook, recess
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] the innermost place.[1]
"So that he may be a nurse for them[2] in their old age for ever, until they come to the recesses [sc. of the house] of the god below."[3]
Greek Original:
*muxo/s: o( e)ndo/tatos to/pos. w(/s sfin ge/nhtai ghrobosko\s me/xris ei)saei\ muxou\s ki/xwsi tou= ka/tw qeou=.
Notes:
The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative singular; LSJ entry at web address 1.
cf. generally mu 1493, mu 1495, mu 1497.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica (e.g. Hesychius mu2008, plural), and cf. also the scholia to Homer, Iliad 9.659.
[2] sfin here refers to Ajax's parents, Telamon and Eriboea.
[3] A version of Sophocles, Ajax 570-1 (lines spoken by Ajax about his son Eurysakes: web address 2); cf. already gamma 250. For the textual problems here see Jebb ad loc. (web address 3).
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NB: Adler's mu 1497, inadvertently overlooked when the SOL lemmata were set up, is given here faute de mieux.
Headword: muxoi/ ["creeks"]
Translation: in Herodotus [this means] hiding-places, the [areas] inside.
Note: from ancient glosses on the accusative plural in Herodotus 2.11.3.
Reference:
Sophocles. The Ajax: with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose by Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge : University Press, 1896 (1907 printing)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Miranda Robinson on 19 August 2009@15:39:50.
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