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Headword:
*nwti/zw
Adler number: nu,567
Translated headword: I turn my back
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I turn round my back.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the aorist infinitive] nwti/sai, [meaning] to drive away.[2] From a metaphor of those presenting their backs in flight.
Greek Original:*nwti/zw: ta\ nw=ta metastre/fw. kai\ *nwti/sai, a)pela/sai. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n ta\ nw=ta dido/ntwn e)n tai=s fugai=s.
Notes:
[1] Backs, in the Greek (though not English) idiom. Similar glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
[2]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 193 (where this aorist infinitive occurs with a cognate accusative), with scholion. See web address 1.
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Translated by: Robert Leigh on 29 September 2009@07:03:56.
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