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Headword:
Aproïdês
Adler number: alpha,3691
Translated headword: unforeseen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] not viewed before. "The unforeseen pit of Hades enveloped [you]".[1] *)aproi+dh/s is also used [in the sense of] someone not caught-sight-of beforehand. In the Epigrams: "I pointed him out to the farmer, and he looked; and unforeseen he hit [the rabbit] with a rock and dashed out his brains."[2]
Greek Original:Aproïdês: aprooratos. Aïdos aproïdês amphekalupse muchos. legetai kai Aproïdês, ho aprooptos. en Epigrammasi: agronomôi d' agoreusa, kai edraken: aproïdês de enkephalon plêxas exekulise lithôi.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-
Zonaras. The headword adjective is illustrated by both of the poems quoted.
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.213.6 (
Archias). Find further extracts from this epigram, an epitaph for a cicada, at
epsilon 2988 and
iota 397. See also e.g.
Nicander,
Theriaca 18, with scholion.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.72.3-4 (
Agathias Scholasticus). Find another quote from this epigram at
pi 3048.
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 March 2002@08:29:41.
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