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Headword:
Adêmonô
Adler number: alpha,459
Translated headword: I am bewildered
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [verb that means] I am in great distress.
"At first he was bewildered and dumbfounded by the present evil".[1]
Also [sc. attested is] "her being bewildered", [meaning] being at a loss.[2]
Greek Original:Adêmonô: to lian lupoumai. ho de to men prôton êdêmonei kai hêsuchian eichen hupo tou parontos kakou. kai Adêmonousês, aporousês.
Notes:
The derivation of this verb is uncertain: see LSJ s.v.
cf. generally
alpha 461,
alpha 462.
[1] Quotation unidentifiable.
[2] From Harpokration s.v. The likely source is
Demosthenes 19.197 (the woman of Olynthos forced to sing): see D. Whitehead, 'Harpocrationiana',
Eikasmos 8 (1997) 157-64, at 157.
Keywords: biography; definition; history; rhetoric; women
Translated by: David Whitehead on 30 April 2002@07:30:54.
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