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Headword: Alektra kai anumpha
Adler number: alpha,1116
Translated headword: unmarried and unwedded
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning unlawful and not customary [ones], [produced] through adultery. That is, unhappily-married and ill-wedded [ones]. Sophocles [writes]: "for unmarried [and] unwedded conflicts came upon murderous marriages".[1]
Greek Original:
Alektra kai anumpha: anti tou paranoma kai ou nenomismena, dia tên moicheian. toutesti duslektra kai kakonumpha. Sophoklês: alektr' anumpha gar epebê miaiphonôn gamôn hamillêmata.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is a pair of neuter plurals.
[1] Sophocles, Electra 492, with scholion.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 April 2000@09:20:56.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added keyword; cosmetics) on 26 January 2001@10:35:39.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 1 December 2005@07:36:37.
David Whitehead (more notes; another keyword; cosmetics) on 3 February 2012@06:01:33.
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