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Headword: *sfi/n
Adler number: sigma,1749
Translated headword: to themselves, for themselves
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] to/for them.[1]
Also [used] in place of the pronoun oi(= in Sophocles. "For it was right to grant them fulfillment of a favor." [Meaning] him.[2]
Greek Original:
*sfi/n: au)toi=s. kai\ a)nti\ th=s oi(= a)ntwnumi/as para\ *sofoklei=: e)/dei ga\r telesfo/ron xa/rin dou=nai sfi/sin. oi( au)tw=|.
Notes:
[1] The headword is dative plural of the pronoun used in Attic as an indirect reflexive. Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and in a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.110 (web address 1); cf. sigma 1742, sigma 1750, omega 222.
[2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1490 (web address 2), with scholion, indicating that the pronoun can also be used as singular.
Associated internet addresses:
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Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 May 2009@14:15:24.
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