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Headword:
Aposta
Adler number: alpha,3545
Translated headword: stand away! get out of the way!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: They say not only
a)po/sthqi ["stand away!"][1] but also
para/sta ["stand by"].[2]
Menander in
Slave-boy [writes]: "then stand away a little!"[3] In
Double Deceiver [he writes]: "stand by me! I will knock at the door and call one of them."[4]
Greek Original:Aposta: ou monon apostêthi legousin, alla kai parasta. Menandros Paidiôi: entauth' aposta mikron. Dis exapatônti: emoi parasta: tên thuran kopsas egô kalô tin' autôn.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the first quotation given, is second aorist imperative active, second person singular, of the verb
a)fi/sthmi. This entry illustrates alternative forms of the intransitive second aorist imperative of compounds of
i(/sthmi. Cf.
alpha 3556.
[1] Aorist imperative active, second person singular.
[2] Aorist imperative active, second person singular, of the verb
pari/sthmi.
[3]
Menander fr. 375 Kock, 317 K.-Th., 278 K.-A.
[4]
Menander fr. 124 Kock, 3 Sandbach.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 3 June 2001@20:08:42.
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