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Headword:
Apoptos
Adler number: alpha,3491
Translated headword: out of sight
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "He intreated me, touching my hand, to send him into the fields and the pastures of the flocks, that he might be as far out of sight as possible from town."[1] For
apoptos ["out of sight"] [means] not being seen.[2]
Sophocles [writes]: "so clearly, though you are out of sight, all the same do I hear your voice."[3]
Apoptos: exiketeuse, tês emês cheiros thigôn, agrous sphe pempsai kapi poimniôn nomas, hôs pleiston eiê tout' apoptos asteos. apoptos gar ho atheôrêtos. Sophoklês: hôs eumathes sou, kan apoptos êis, homôs phônêm' akouô.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 760-2 (web address 1 below).
[2] cf.
alpha 3490.
[3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 15-16 (Odysseus on the voice of Athena: web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; definition; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 June 2001@12:36:43.
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