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Headword:
Amachon
Adler number: alpha,1514
Translated headword: impossible, unconquerable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] difficult to overcome.
Pindar [writes]: "[it is] impossible to conceal one's inherent nature."[1]
Aelian [writes]: "they brought back an impossible multitude of fishes and raised up a trophy and erected altars."[2]
And elsewhere: "each man was assigned to explain his own deed. For they saw that the king/emperor was impossibly eager for this."[3]
And elsewhere: "there was a priestess for the god, of an impossible beauty."[4]
And elsewhere: "when the unexpected stormcloud had burst, an impossible mass of snow fell down."[5]
And elsewhere: "not an impossible sovereignty."[6]
And elsewhere: "inflamed with an unconquerable arrogance, he despised the fact of still being mortal."[7]
Greek Original:Amachon: duskatamachêton. Pindaros: amachon de krupsai to sungenes êthos. Ailianos: ichthuôn de apênenkanto plêthos amachon kai anestêsan tropaion kai bômous ôrthôsan. kai authis: etitheto hekastos to ergon heautou apodeixai. heôrôn gar ton basilea speudonta touto amachôs. kai authis: ên de hiereia tôi theôi kallos amachos. kai authis: adokêtou cheimônos katarragentos katênechthê plêthos chionos amachon. kai authis: ou dunasteia amachos. kai authis: es huperopsian de exaphtheis amachon, tou men eti anthrôpos einai katephronei.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is neuter singular of this adjective. For its more literal sense, see
alpha 1515.
[1]
Pindar,
Olympian 13.16 (web address 1 below). Entry so far =
Photius,
Lexicon alpha1149 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aelian fr. 135 Domingo-Forasté (132 Hercher).
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4]
Aelian fr. 53a D-F (50 Hercher).
[5]
Aelian fr. 68c D-F (65 Hercher).
[6]
Damascius, quoted from
epsilon 1088.
[7]
Aelian fr. 89 D-F (86 Hercher), on
Clearchus; see in full at
kappa 1714.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; history; poetry; religion; women; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 23 March 2001@19:24:59.
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