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Headword: Azêlon
Adler number: alpha,590
Translated headword: unenviable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] which one would not envy. "Thus unenviable was the deed you claim I did."[1]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] a)/zhlos bi/os ["unenviable life"], [meaning] a miserable [one]. "Finding an unenviable life out of happinesses, they come before you."[2]
Greek Original:
Azêlon: ho ouk an tis zêlôsei. azêlon houtôs ergon ergasthai me phêis. kai Azêlos bios, ho eutelês. ex olbiôn azêlon heurousai bion, chôrousi pros se.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the first quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective.
[1] Sophocles, Trachiniae 745 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
[2] Lines 284-5 of the same play (web address 2 below), on the captive womenfolk of Oechalia.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy; women
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2001@20:57:35.
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