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Headword:
*tanta/leioi
Adler number: tau,78
Translated headword: Tantalean [ones]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] trembling [ones].[1]
And [there is] a proverb: 'Tantalean punishments'; in reference to those who have good things but are not permitted to enjoy them; like the Byzantines, who did not dare to spend time outside the city.[2]
Greek Original:*tanta/leioi: tromikoi/. kai\ paroimi/a: *tanta/leioi timwri/ai: e)pi\ tw=n a)gaqa\ me\n e)xo/ntwn, mh\ sugxwroume/nwn de\ a)polau/ein au)tw=n: w(s oi( *buza/ntioi, mh\ tolmw=ntes e)/cw tou= a)/steos dia/gein.
Notes:
cf. generally
tau 77,
tau 79,
tau 80,
tau 81.
[1] Likewise in other lexica. The headword, masculine nominative plural of this adjective, must be quoted from somewhere or generated by such a quotation.
[2] cf.
Apostolius 16.9 and other paroemiographers; and see
Polybius 4.45.6 (where the problem is frequent attacks by the neighboring Thracians: web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; geography; historiography; history; military affairs; mythology; proverbs
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 September 2004@00:03:23.
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