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Autangelos
Adler number: alpha,4463
Translated headword: self-announcing, announcing what one has seen
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which[1] delivers announcements from itself. "For the oak herself will tell you, self-announcing";[2] for it has writings.
And elsewhere: "he would have come from the king/emperor as an announcer of these things which he himself had seen, were he not sick with a long and painful illness."[3]
And elsewhere: "he ordered him to be apprehended and imprisoned, so that he did not return to the army camp and become a self-announcer of things that were better kept hidden."[4]
Greek Original:Autangelos: hê aph' heautês apangellousa. autangelos gar hê drus autê soi phrasei: echei gar grammata. kai authis: êlthen an para basileôs autangelos toutôn, ei mê nosôi makrai kai chalepêi ekamne. kai authis: xullêphthenta de heirchthênai keleuei, hôs mê epanelthonta eis to stratopedon autangelon genesthai tôn xumphorôteron an kruptomenôn.
Notes:
[1] In the Greek 'she who', because the oak tree (see next note) is feminine.
[2] A (poor) iambic trimeter; perhaps from a story concerning Zeus's sacred oak at
Dodona (see
delta 1447).
[3] Quotation unidentifiable.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 March 2002@09:02:40.
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