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Headword: Araios
Adler number: alpha,3816
Translated headword: accursed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning someone who is] lying under a curse.
"Might I now not benefit, but perish accursed, if I have done to you anything [sc. of what you accuse me of doing]."[1] And Sophocles [writes]: "but if [you do] not, I shall await you, even accursed below, forever heavy."[2] As he is dying Heracles says this to his son.
But a)raio/s [means] weak.[3]
But a)raiw=s as an adverb ["loosely"] [means] not fitting snugly.
"I/they found the door of the tomb lying loosely [i.e. ajar]."[4]
Greek Original:
Araios: arai hupokeimenos. mê nun onaimên, all' araios, ei se ti dedrak', oloimên. kai Sophoklês: ei de mê, menô s' egô kai nerthen araios eisaei barus. ho Hêraklês phêsi teleutôn pros ton huion autou. Araios de ho asthenês. Araiôs de epirrêmatikôs mê hêrmosmenôs. heuron de tên thuran tou mnêmatos araiôs epikeimenên.
Notes:
See also alpha 3813, alpha 3817.
[1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 644-645 (web address 1 below).
[2] Sophocles, Trachiniae 1201-1202 (web address 2).
[3] cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon: a)rai=os.)
[4] Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 July 2001@14:51:13.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 15 July 2001@05:41:27.
Joseph L. Rife (translation; notes) on 10 September 2001@15:09:52.
Catharine Roth (betacode cosmetics) on 18 October 2006@01:13:42.
David Whitehead (augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 October 2006@03:04:04.
David Whitehead (more x-refs; cosmetics) on 11 April 2012@04:24:01.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 22 October 2015@10:15:50.

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