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Headword: Aeikôs
Adler number: alpha,627
Translated headword: improperly, unsuitably
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] indecorously,[1] unaccustomedly.
"Thus you died improperly and piteously." Piteously because [he died] by force and entrapment, and improperly because they took revenge on him with an axe [and] with violence.[2]
Greek Original:
Aeikôs: aprepôs, asunêthôs. houtôs aeikôs oiktrôs te thanontos. oiktrôs men dia to biai kai epibouleuthenta, aeikôs de dioti pelekei auton meth' hubreôs etisanto.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in Hesychius.
[2] Sophocles, Electra 101-102 (web address 1 below: Electra is speaking of her father Agamemnon), with scholion. Some editions of the play, however, print the emendation ai)kw=s; and some mss in any event have a)di/kws.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; ethics; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 19 March 2001@21:08:17.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 20 March 2001@06:18:01.
Jennifer Benedict (updated link) on 15 March 2008@22:47:30.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword; tweaks) on 12 January 2012@09:22:21.
David Whitehead (expanded note) on 30 April 2015@10:42:11.
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