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Headword:
*ai)e/nupnos
Adler number: alphaiota,95
Translated headword: ever-sleeping
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [sc. A way of describing] death, the one who is always sleeping. But it must be read as a single [word].
Sophocles [writes]: "upon you, in fact, I call, the ever-sleeping one."[1] But
a)ei/upnos ['ever-sleeping'] [is also] one who is always sleeping.[2]
*ai)e/nupnos: o( qa/natos, o( a)ei\ koimw/menos. u(f' e(\n de\ a)nagnwste/on. *sofoklh=s: se/ toi kiklh/skw th\n ai)e/nupnon. a)ei/upnos de\ o( a)ei\ koimw/menos.
Notes:
Headword and gloss occur only in reference to the passage of
Sophocles cited.
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 1578 (web address 1), where the mss have
ai)enu/pnon (as here),
ai)e\n a)/upnon or
ai)e\n e)/nupnon. The second and third of these variants aside, the scholiast's point is that one should read here not a two-word phrase,
ai)e\n u(/pnon, but a single word,
a)ei/upnon.
[2] Already at
alpha 644.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; mythology; poetry; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 May 2003@15:28:24.
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