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Headword:
*(ri/mfa
Adler number: rho,167
Translated headword: swiftly
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] easily, readily.[1]
"As you were sleeping, a plunderer set upon you stealthily and killed you, swiftly setting his fingernail on your throat."[2]
Greek Original:*(ri/mfa: r(a|di/ws, eu)xerw=s. h)= ga/r s' u(pnw/onta si/nis laqrhdo\n e)pelqw\n e)/kteine, laimw=| r(i/mfa kaqei\s o)/nuxa.
Notes:
[1] Epic/poetic adverb, similarly glossed in
Hesychius (rho326) and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 6.511, where it occurs (web address 1).
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.202.3-4 (
Anyte), about a rooster; again at
sigma 460. Also see Gow and Page (vol. I, 38), (vol. II, 97), and another extract from this epigram at
epsilon 2933. The poet does not identify the plunderer. But as Gow and Page suggest (ibid.), a likely candidate is the weasel or some other clawed predator in the broader Mustelidae family of carnivorous animals; cf. LSJ s.v.
gale/h (web address 2) and
gamma 29.
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 addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 September 2010@19:02:03.
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