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Headword: Anostous
Adler number: alpha,2571
Translated headword: without homecoming, without return
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning them] unreturning. For nostos is a return to one's own things, [so called] from the sweetness of one's homeland.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "he killed the sacrilegious men and made them without homecoming, this of course according to the Homeric phrase.[2]
Greek Original:
Anostous: anupostreptous. nostos gar hê eis ta oikeia epanodos, para to tês patridos hêdu. Ailianos: ho de tous theosulas apekteine kai ethêken anostous touto dê to Homêrikon.
Notes:
The headword is masculine accusative plural of this adjective, presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf. nu 500 on the two meanings of nostos.
[2] Aelian fr. 130 Domingo-Forasté (127 Hercher). The Homeric allusion is to Odyssey 24.528, e)/qhkan a)no/stous (web address 1).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; history; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 July 2000@01:10:59.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (Modified translation, added cross-reference and link.) on 5 December 2000@21:52:15.
Catharine Roth on 5 December 2000@21:56:10.
David Whitehead (added keywords; cosmetics) on 13 August 2002@09:38:01.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 14 August 2002@00:03:55.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 15 March 2012@11:24:10.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 15 June 2013@01:46:54.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 15 June 2013@01:55:09.
David Whitehead on 16 June 2013@08:43:11.
Catharine Roth (modified link) on 17 June 2013@00:49:30.
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