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Headword:
Asplanchnos
Adler number: alpha,4213
Translated headword: gutless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] undaring, base, craven, cowardly.
Sophocles [writes]: "not by nature gutless [sc. though] born of that man." [Meaning] by nature weak and other than that of his father.
Greek Original:Asplanchnos: atolmos, tapeinos, deilos, psuchros. Sophoklês: mê toi phusin asplanchnos ekeinou gegonôs. phusin de asthenê kai alloian para tên tou patros.
Note:
Sophocles,
Ajax 472 (web address 1 below), with scholion; Ajax is speaking, of himself and his father Telamon.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; imagery; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 January 2002@06:50:45.
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