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Headword:
*)afobo/splagxnos
Adler number: alpha,4634
Translated headword: fearless of heart
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] one who is daring.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the dative plural] a)fo/bois ["fearless"], [meaning] those not inducing fear, that is sheep. "[Do you see] me as dauntless in horrible battles, terrible of hand amongst unformidable beasts?"[2]
Greek Original:*)afobo/splagxnos: o( tolmhro/s. kai\ *)afo/bois, toi=s mh\ fo/bon e)mpoiou=si, toute/sti toi=s proba/tois. to\n e)n dai/+ois a)/treston ma/xais e)n a)fo/bois me qhrsi\ deino\n xe/ras;
Notes:
[1] Probably, as Adler suggests, from a scholium to
Aristophanes,
Frogs 496, where this headword (uniquely) occurs (web address 1).
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 365-366 (web address 2). The
scholia there provide the material here.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 June 2001@00:17:23.
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