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Headword: *)ate/kmarton
Adler number: alpha,4332
Translated headword: boundless; baffling, unsurmisable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] endless, beyond conjecture.[1]
Aristophanes in Birds [writes]: "a fellow unstable, flying about, baffling."[2] That is, not displaying any meaning in his flight; he is speaking about Teleas.[3]
And Eunapius says: "with both the stature of the uniting peoples and the sizes of their preparations for the great advance, when the events were various and unsurmisable fortune expected ..."[4] [Meaning] inconceivable.
Greek Original:
*)ate/kmarton: a)telei/wton, a)katasto/xaston. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisin: a)/nqrwpos a)sta/qmhtos peto/menos a)te/kmartos. oi(=on shmei=on dia\ th=s pth/sews ou)k e)mfai/nwn: peri\ tou= *tele/ou fhsi/. *eu)na/pios de\ le/gei: tw=| te a)ciw/mati tw=n sunio/ntwn e)qnw=n kai\ toi=s mege/qesi tw=n paraskeuw=n e)pi\ me/ga probh/sesqai, polutro/pwn sumforw=n kai\ a)tekma/rtou tu/xhs prosdokhqei/shs. a)katanoh/tou.
Notes:
[1] Masculine accusative singular or neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective; similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere (not from either of the quotations given here).
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 169-170 (web address 1), followed here by comment from the scholia to these lines.
[3] Actually the character speaking these lines, Peisetairos, says that Teleas will say these things. See in full at tau 254.
[4] Eunapius fr.37 FHG (4.28); continued at sigma 982.
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Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; military affairs
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 24 March 2002@08:38:16.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented translation; added keywords; cosmetics) on 11 April 2002@07:37:50.
Catharine Roth (tweaked notes, raised status) on 28 May 2008@10:33:37.
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 28 May 2008@11:12:11.
David Whitehead on 2 September 2015@08:47:04.
Catharine Roth (tweaked link) on 9 December 2015@01:32:10.

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