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Headword: *)aproi+dh/s
Adler number: alpha,3691
Translated headword: unforeseen
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] not viewed before. "The unforeseen pit of Hades enveloped [you]".[1] *)aproi+dh/s is also used [in the sense of] someone not caught-sight-of beforehand. In the Epigrams: "I pointed him out to the farmer, and he looked; and unforeseen he hit [the rabbit] with a rock and dashed out his brains."[2]
Greek Original:
*)aproi+dh/s: a)proo/ratos. *)/ai+dos a)proi+dh\s a)mfeka/luye muxo/s. le/getai kai\ *)aproi+dh/s, o( a)pro/optos. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)grono/mw| d' a)go/reusa, kai\ e)/draken: a)proi+dh\s de\ e)gke/falon plh/cas e)ceku/lise li/qw|.
Notes:
Same entry in ps.-Zonaras. The headword adjective is illustrated by both of the poems quoted.
[1] Greek Anthology 7.213.6 (Archias). Find further extracts from this epigram, an epitaph for a cicada, at epsilon 2988 and iota 397. See also e.g. Nicander, Theriaca 18, with scholion.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.72.3-4 (Agathias Scholasticus). Find another quote from this epigram at pi 3048.
Keywords: agriculture; daily life; definition; mythology; poetry; religion; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 March 2002@08:29:41.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead on 10 April 2002@10:29:30.
David Whitehead (another keyword) on 7 October 2005@06:10:40.
David Whitehead (another note; betacode and other cosmetics) on 9 April 2012@07:39:56.
David Whitehead (augmented notes) on 30 August 2015@05:35:25.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 13 October 2015@23:48:59.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.1) on 25 May 2023@11:28:00.
Ronald Allen (added cross-reference n.2) on 27 August 2023@14:42:56.

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