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Headword:
Alêma
Adler number: alpha,1190
Translated headword: fine-witted; wily knave
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] rascally trick or (?)crushing. "How might I destroy that wheedling enemy, that wily knave, and the joint-ruling kings and die myself as well."[1] "O child of Laertes, most loathsome wily knave of the army, I suppose you laugh and carry on in joy." Meaning o rascal and meddler. But "o most loathsome" [is] malicious.[2]
Greek Original:Alêma: paralogistikon panourgêma ê epitrimma. pôs an ton haimulôtaton echthron, alêma tous te dissarchas basileis olesas telos thanoimi kautos. ô teknon Laertiou, kakopinestat' alêma stratou, êpou polun gelôth' huph' hêdonês ageis. anti tou panourge kai perierge. kakopinestate de kakoêthes.
Notes:
The headword, a neuter noun cognate with
alpha 1176 and
alpha 1183, is used here figuratively of a 'fine-witted, wily knave' (LSJ), i.e. Odysseus.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 388-390, preceded by a version of a scholion there (which uses
peritrimma rather than the
epitrimma -- not in LSJ -- of the Suda and ps.-
Zonaras).
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 380-382, with scholion.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 25 April 2000@10:09:53.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; cosmetics) on 13 June 2002@04:45:45.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks) on 5 February 2012@08:57:49.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaking) on 31 May 2015@10:31:09.
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