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Headword: Arkô
Adler number: alpha,3956
Translated headword: I am a match, I hold out, I endure
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Used] with a dative.[1] [Meaning] I am strong, I am able to prevail.
"The greater part of life has already left, and I am no longer holding out."[2]
Greek Original:
Arkô: dotikêi. ischuô, hupomeinai dunamai. ho polus êdê biotos apoleloipen, oud' et' arkô.
Notes:
[1] So at (e.g.) Homer, Iliad 15.529; and see already alpha 3951. (But the absolute usage, now to be illustrated, is more common.)
[2] Sophocles, Electra 185-6 (web address 1 below).
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 29 July 2001@20:34:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 30 July 2001@07:02:56.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 12 April 2012@07:41:51.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 2 November 2015@01:03:08.
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