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Headword:
Antibolêsis
Adler number: alpha,2655
Translated headword: prayer
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning a] summons, supplication.[1]
Thucydides [writes]: "for having turned to prayer and entreaty they reduced [the rest] to despair, as they begged to be taken with them."[2]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)ntibolh=sai ["to meet"], [meaning] to encounter, to take part in.[3]
Also [sc. attested is]
a)ntibolw= ["I entreat"], [meaning] I supplicate.
It is formed from
a)/ntomai ["I meet"] and
ba/llw ["I hit"].[4]
Antibolêsis kai Antibolia: paraklêsis, hiketêria. Thoukudidês: pros gar antibolian kai olophurmon trapomenoi, es aporian kathistasin agein te sphas axiountes. kai Antibolêsai, apantêsai, metaschein. kai Antibolô, to hiketeuô. pepoiêtai de para to antomai kai ballô.
Notes:
The headwords are two nouns with the same meaning,
a)ntibo/lhsis and
a)ntiboli/a.
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to the
Thucydides passage about to be quoted
[2]
Thucydides 7.75.4. See web address 1 below for the text (which needs the comma after the finite verb).
[3] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 4.342, where this aorist infinitive appears.
[4] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes,
Wealth 103, where
a)ntibolw= appears. Cf.
alpha 2656,
eta 402.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 May 2001@15:01:03.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented note; added keywords; cosmetics) on 14 May 2001@03:45:47.
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; restorative cosmetics) on 14 August 2002@07:13:39.
Catharine Roth (added betacode, cross-references, and keyword; tweaked translation; raised status) on 14 September 2006@01:13:51.
David Whitehead on 18 March 2012@08:13:24.
David Whitehead on 23 July 2015@11:25:59.
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