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Headword:
Anapaulan
Adler number: alpha,1998
Translated headword: rest
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] repose.[1]
Repose [is] the life to come.[2]
"Giving [him] rest from war with other very worthy men."[3]
Menander [writes]: "for thus the greatest leader of the Huns came upon his rest."[4] That is, he died.
Also [sc. attested is the accusative plural]
a)napau/las ["rests"], [meaning] sendings to the dead. "Who is [bound] for rests from evils and troubles?"[5] Charon [
Author,
Myth] announces [this], and lists as destinations. "Who is for the Plain of Oblivion?" The plain of Oblivion is a place of this name that he has imagined in Hades; as also the Withering Stone.[6] "Who is for Ass Shearings?" Thus they call what is useless; for not even the shearings of the ass have a use. In reference to endless things.
Greek Original:Anapaulan: anapausin. anapausis de ho mellôn bios. sun heterois axiologôtatois andrasi tôi polemôi dous tên anapaulan. Menandros: hôdi gar Ounnôn hêgemôn megistos etuchen anapaulês. toutestin apethane. kai Anapaulas, pempseis pros tous nekrous. tis eis anapaulas ek kakôn kai pragmatôn; kêrussei ho Charôn, kai hôs topous katalegei: tis eis to Lêthês pedion; Lêthês pedion chôrion diatetupôken en haidou houtô legomenon: hôs kai Auainou lithon. tis eis onou pokas; houtô legousi to achrêston: oude gar hai tou onou pokai chrêsimeuousin. epi tôn anênutôn.
Notes:
The headword noun is in the accusative case, evidently quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] A gloss on the gloss, apparently from a Christian source.
[3] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.15.7.
[4]
Menander Protector fr. 29 Blockley.
[5]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 185-6 (web address 1), here and below (with the comments of the
scholia in the interstices); cf.
lambda 416,
tau 655.
[6] ibid. 194.
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Keywords: biography; Christianity; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; mythology; proverbs; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 May 2001@12:07:35.
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