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Headword: *nei=tai
Adler number: nu,293
Translated headword: will come
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] will arrive, will go.[1]
"And he will not come again spreading bird-lime on the reed hunting-traps."[2]
Greek Original:
*nei=tai: a)fi/cetai, e)leu/setai. ou)d' e)/ti nei=tai i)co\n e)p' a)greutai=s xeua/menos kala/mois.
Notes:
Contracted third person singular of ne/omai (see nu 133, nu 134). The present indicative usually has a future sense, and is defined by the lexicographer with future-tense verbs.
[1] cf. the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 12.188 (web address 1).
[2] Greek Anthology 7.171.3-4 (Mnasalces), a fowler's epitaph signals that birds are safe to perch near his grave; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 142) and (vol. II, 405).
References:
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 November 2000@01:46:50.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Augmented note, raised status) on 23 November 2000@11:16:57.
David Whitehead (added keyword; cosmetics) on 24 December 2002@04:13:09.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 26 December 2002@12:52:38.
David Whitehead on 7 June 2013@07:16:06.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 9 June 2013@00:25:56.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 1 November 2020@01:06:06.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 8 November 2020@16:30:58.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added keyword) on 5 January 2022@20:26:43.

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