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Headword:
Amphipuron
Adler number: alpha,1757
Translated headword: aflame, flaming
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one] burning on all sides.
Sophocles [writes]: "some of you set up the high flaming tripod at the time for the holy ablutions."[1]
Greek Original:Amphipuron: pantachothen puroumenon. Sophoklês: toi d' hupsibaton tripod' amphipuron loutrôn hosiôn thesth' epikairon.
Notes:
The headword is masculine accusative singular of this adjective -- rather than neuter nominative/accusative singular -- if extracted from the quotation given (there are other instances: see next note).
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 1404-6 (web address 1); cf. for the headword
Sophocles,
Trachiniae 214, and
Euripides,
Ion 212.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 August 2000@21:53:55.
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