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Headword:
Apetisen
Adler number: alpha,3085
Translated headword: paid back, repaid
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] gave back.[1]
"But the stricken beast repaid in blood - calf's - for blood."[2]
Greek Original:Apetisen: apedôken. moscheiôi d' apetisen ho thêr anth' haimatos haima blêtheis.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Odyssey 1.43, where the headword occurs. Similarly in other lexica.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.263.5-6 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a cattle herder's dedication of spoils from a marauding lion; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 123), (vol. II, 357), and further excerpts from this epigram at
alpha 4700,
beta 571,
epsilon 3492, and
xi 97.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry; trade and manufacture; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 28 January 2001@21:58:08.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added note and keywords; cosmetics) on 19 August 2002@04:09:57.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 March 2012@07:55:41.
David Whitehead on 7 August 2015@03:17:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references) on 7 April 2021@16:22:52.
Ronald Allen (added keyword) on 8 April 2021@11:20:09.
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