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Headword: Anamplakêtoi
Adler number: alpha,2020
Translated headword: unerring
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] they who miss nothing, but overcome everything. Alternatively inescapable, inexorable, unfailing, invisible, they who cannot be fled. Sophocles [writes]: "dread Keres are following [him], unerring." That is, those of Laios.[1]
Greek Original:
Anamplakêtoi: hai eis mêden hamartanousai, alla pantôn kratousai. ê aphuktoi, aplanêtoi, aprospelastoi, aphaneis, has ouk estin apophugein. Sophoklês: deinai d' ham' hepontai kêres anamplakêtoi. toutesti tou Laïou.
Notes:
The nominative plural headword a)nampla/khtoi purports to be extracted from the quotation given; in fact Sophocles wrote a)napla/khtoi.
On the Keres cf. kappa 1530, kappa 1531.
[1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 471-472 (web address 1), with scholion.
Associated internet address:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 October 2000@11:36:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added keyword) on 5 March 2001@09:02:50.
Catharine Roth (updated link) on 29 October 2011@23:18:19.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 30 October 2011@05:55:28.
Catharine Roth (tweaked note) on 24 September 2013@23:40:58.
David Whitehead on 2 July 2015@03:25:42.
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