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Headword: *)/apoptos
Adler number: alpha,3491
Translated headword: out of sight
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"He intreated me, touching my hand, to send him into the fields and the pastures of the flocks, that he might be as far out of sight as possible from town."[1] For apoptos ["out of sight"] [means] not being seen.[2] Sophocles [writes]: "so clearly, though you are out of sight, all the same do I hear your voice."[3]
Greek Original:
*)/apoptos: e)cike/teuse, th=s e)mh=s xeiro\s qigw\n, a)grou/s sfe pe/myai ka)pi\ poimni/wn noma/s, w(s plei=ston ei)/h tou=t' a)/poptos a)/steos. a)/poptos ga\r o( a)qew/rhtos. *sofoklh=s: w(s eu)maqe/s sou, ka)\n a)/poptos h)=|s, o(/mws fw/nhm' a)kou/w.
Notes:
[1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 760-2 (web address 1 below).
[2] cf. alpha 3490.
[3] Sophocles, Ajax 15-16 (Odysseus on the voice of Athena: web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: agriculture; definition; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 2 June 2001@12:36:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 3 June 2001@11:32:44.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 7 October 2005@06:09:07.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 4 April 2012@07:30:37.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 20 September 2015@00:23:15.

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