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Headword:
*(uyhlote/ras
Adler number: upsilon,747
Translated headword: more lofty
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] more boastful, more excellent. "[He] wrote letters more lofty than Capaneus [sc. would have written], [when he was] puffed-up or deflated or even cajoled,[2] because of which I often call the god to mind, and I cry out that [verse] 'Io Nemesis and deep-roaring thunderbolts'."[3]
And elsewhere: "you think lofty thoughts, and you travel on the heights" -- that is, you were going prancing on tip-toe -- "when being nothing you stood up for this nothing, and you swore that we came neither as generals nor admirals of the Achaeans."[4]
Greek Original:*(uyhlote/ras: a)lazonikwte/ras, u(perfereste/ras. u(yhlote/ras e)/graye *kapane/ws e)pistola/s, e)parqei\s h)\ xaunwqei\s h)\ kai\ kepfwqei/s, u(pe\r w(=n to\n qeo\n polla/kis u(pomimnh/skw, kai\ to\ *)iw\ *ne/mesi kai\ baru/bromoi brontai\ sunexw=s bow=. kai\ au)=qis: u(yh=l' e)fro/neis, ka)p' a)/krwn w(doipo/reis [toute/stin e)p' a)/krwn daktu/lwn e)/baines gauriw=n], o(/t' ou)de\n w)\n tou= mhde\n a)nte/sths u(/per, kou)/te strathgou\s ou)/te naua/rxous molei=n h(ma=s *)axaiw=n, ou)/te su\ diwmo/sw.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is feminine accusative plural of the comparative of
u(yhlo/s: cf.
upsilon 748.
[2] For the participle
kepfwqei/s see
kappa 1348.
[3] Adler notes that Jonathan Toup (1713-1785) attributed this passage -- quoted with variations at
epsilon 1062, q.v. for Capaneus -- to
Synesius or the emperor Julian. The writer quotes
Euripides,
Phoenician Women 182 (cf.
iota 454,
nu 162).
[4]
Sophocles,
Ajax 1230-33 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; military affairs; mythology; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 24 March 2007@23:27:01.
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