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Headword:
Anêkeston
Adler number: alpha,2404
Translated headword: incurable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] irreparable, unable to be healed.[1]
"What did you see that you are warmed by this incurable fire?"[2] Meaning you are deranged such that your thoughts are on fire. But a)nhke/stw| puri/ ["by incurable fire"] [also means] by hopeless expectation.[3]
Greek Original:Anêkeston: aniaton, atherapeuton. es ti moi blepsasa thalpêi tôid' anêkestôi puri; anti tou parakoptêi tas phrenas hôs en puretôi. anêkestôi de puri, anelpistôi prosdokiai.
Notes:
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 5.394, where the headword (neuter singular of this adjective) occurs.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 887-8 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[3] The speaker is Electra, who, unlike her sister Chrysothemis, has no basis -- yet -- for hope that their brother Orestes is alive.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 30 May 2001@12:44:35.
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