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Headword: Aneimenai
Adler number: alpha,2379
Translated headword: laid open, let loose
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning they who have been] released.[1]
[They who have been] neglected.
And in Sophocles [sc. is attested] a)neime/nh, meaning [she] having license in every respect. "You seem to be turned loose again; for Aegisthus is not here."[2]
And [sc. attested is the phrase] a)neime/non a)/lsos, [meaning a glade] dedicated to a god.[3] And one thrown open.
Also [sc. this verb can mean] doing something with ease.
"And it was impossible for them, even if they struggled, to gain control of things [that were] in a way so easily accomplishable."[4]
And, "with the radiant orbs of the heavens laid open."[5] Meaning opened.
Greek Original:
Aneimenai: eklelumenai. pareimenai. kai para Sophoklei aneimenê, anti tou anesin echousa pantachothen. aneimenê men, hôs eoikas, au ektrephêi: ou gar parest' Aigisthos. kai Aneimenon alsos, to tôi theôi aphierômenon. kai to êneôigmenon. kai to rhaithumôs ti poiein. adunaton te ên autois houtôs aneimena pôs kai ponoumenois epikratêsein. kai, aneimenôn poloio pamphaôn ptuchôn. anti tou aneôigmenôn.
Notes:
The headword is perfect middle/passive participle, feminine nominative plural, of a)ni/hmi. It must be quoted from somewhere -- perhaps the Septuagint (Isaiah 35.3).
[1] Same glossing in Photius and elsewhere.
[2] Sophocles, Electra 516-517 (web address 1), with scholion.
[3] Plato, Laws 761C (web address 2).
[4] Perhaps Polybius (so Bernhardy).
[5] Again at pi 3067.
Associated internet addresses:
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; imagery; mythology; philosophy; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 4 November 2000@18:25:54.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified translation; added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 12 August 2002@06:36:34.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 11 March 2012@09:35:36.
Catharine Roth (coding, tweaked notes, upgraded links) on 2 November 2013@01:24:26.
Catharine Roth on 2 November 2013@01:28:22.
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