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Headword:
*)apo/timos
Adler number: alpha,3598
Translated headword: dishonoured
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Thus
Sophocles [writes of] the plague as a "dishonoured god", that is, one not sharing in the honour of the [other] gods. For [it is a characteristic] of gods to do good things for mankind; but this one ruins and destroys.
*)apo/timos: ou(/tws *sofoklh=s a)po/timon qeo\n to\n loimo/n, toute/sti to\n mh\ mete/xonta th=s timh=s tw=n qew=n. qew=n ga/r e)sti to\ eu)ergetei=n tou\s a)nqrw/pous: o( de\ fqei/rei kai\ a)po/llusin.
Note:
From the
scholia to
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 215, where the phrase "the god dishonoured amongst gods" occurs.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 June 2001@12:39:59.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added keyword; cosmetics) on 12 June 2001@03:03:20.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 6 April 2012@05:07:27.
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