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Headword:
Atekmarton
Adler number: alpha,4332
Translated headword: boundless; baffling, unsurmisable
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] endless, beyond conjecture.[1]
Aristophanes in
Birds [writes]: "a fellow unstable, flying about, baffling."[2] That is, not displaying any meaning in his flight; he is speaking about Teleas.[3]
And
Eunapius says: "with both the stature of the uniting peoples and the sizes of their preparations for the great advance, when the events were various and unsurmisable fortune expected ..."[4] [Meaning] inconceivable.
Atekmarton: ateleiôton, akatastochaston. Aristophanês Ornisin: anthrôpos astathmêtos petomenos atekmartos. hoion sêmeion dia tês ptêseôs ouk emphainôn: peri tou Teleou phêsi. Eunapios de legei: tôi te axiômati tôn suniontôn ethnôn kai tois megethesi tôn paraskeuôn epi mega probêsesthai, polutropôn sumphorôn kai atekmartou tuchês prosdokêtheisês. akatanoêtou.
Notes:
[1] Masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (not from either of the quotations given here).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Birds 169-170 (web address 1), followed here by comment from the
scholia to these lines.
[3] Actually the character speaking these lines, Peisetairos, says that Teleas will say these things. See in full at
tau 254.
[4]
Eunapius fr.37 FHG (4.28); continued at
sigma 982.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 March 2002@08:38:16.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplemented translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@07:37:50.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes, raised status) on 28 May 2008@10:33:37.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 May 2008@11:12:11.
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