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Headword:
Astibes
alsos
Adler number: alpha,4240
Translated headword: untrodden glade
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one that is not to be travelled through, unconquerable, unapproachable.[1] Ajax says: "and walking I will go where the land is untrodden, I will bury this sword, my most hated of weapons, and bury it where no one might see; but let night and Hades keep it below."[2] I will find, he is saying, a place where no one will go. Ajax is saying, where no-one would follow him.[3]
Also [sc. attested is] a)stibh= ["untrodden"], [meaning] unwalked by foot.[4]
Also [sc. attested is] a)stibh/s ["untrodden"], [meaning] impassable or safe.
Also [sc. attested is] eu)stibh/s ["giving good footing"], [meaning] that which has good passage.
"Rock that gives good footing to the fisher gulls." In the Epigrams.[5]
Also [sc. attested is] a)stei/bhtos,[7] a track not to be travelled through.[6]
Greek Original:Astibes alsos: adiodeuton, akatamachêton, aprospelaston. Aias phêsi: molôn te chôron enth' an astibê kichô, krupsô tod' enchos toumon echthiston belôn, gaias oruxas entha mê tis opsetai: all' auto nux haidês te sôizontôn katô. heurêsô, phêsi, topon, hou oudeis epibêsetai. ho Aias phêsin, hina mê tis autôi akolouthêsêi. kai Astibê, abaton posi. kai Astibês, ho abatos ê asphalês. kai Eustibês, ho kalên basin echôn. eustibes aithuiais ichthuboloisi lepas. en Epigrammasi. kai Asteibêtos, adiodeutos tribos.
Notes:
The headword phrase comes from
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 126 (web address 1 below). See further, notes 1 and 4.
[1] The second and third glosses here are from the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 127.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 657-660 (web address 2).
[3] From the
scholia to the above.
[4] From the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 126.
[5]
Greek Anthology 6.23.2 (author unknown), a fisherman's dedication to Hermes; cf.
beta 365,
lambda 284, and Page (323-324).
[6] See LSJ s.v.
astibetos.
Reference:
D.L. Page, ed., Further Greek Epigrams, (Cambridge 1981)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; geography; mythology; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 January 2002@05:39:52.
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