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Headword: *)/apusta
Adler number: alpha,3723
Translated headword: unheard (things)
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] inaudible [ones].[1]
"And the Athenians [?were in the position of having?] heard nothing from Theseus."[2]
Greek Original:
*)/apusta: a)nh/kousta. kai\ a)/pustoi oi( *)aqhnai=oi a)po\ *qhse/ws.
Notes:
An adjective with both passive and active meanings (see LSJ s.v.); both seem to be illustrated here.
[1] cf. the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 489, where the (neuter plural) headword occurs.
[2] Adler prints these six words, as the second part of the entry, without comment. They make up, on the face of it, an unidentifiable quotation, from (one would guess) a version of the story of Theseus sailing to Crete to kill the Minotaur and forgetting his promise to give advance warning, by means of the colour of his sails, of success or failure there. However, the reading a)/pustoi is far from certain: see Theodoridis on Photius, Lexicon alpha2753 (numbered and printed as a discrete entry), also indicating in a note there his belief that the correct reading is a)/pugoi ("buttock-less"), as in Hesychius s.v. This would obviously result in a radically different understanding of the whole phrase, as lemma plus gloss: '"buttock-less"; the Athenians [sc. are called this] from Theseus'; cf. lambda 604.
Keywords: aetiology; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; mythology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 9 August 2001@23:28:50.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (modified headword and translation; added notes and keywords) on 10 August 2001@07:00:18.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords) on 18 April 2006@05:03:48.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 9 April 2012@10:06:54.
David Whitehead (expanded and tweaked n.2) on 10 April 2012@03:57:42.
David Whitehead on 30 August 2015@07:28:59.

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