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Headword: *)emplei/mhn
Adler number: epsilon,1025
Translated headword: I would be filled
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning I would be sated. Aristophanes [writes] in Acharnians: "I would not be filled with throwing rocks at him." He has hit on an optative inflexion. For [the verb] is e)mpiplw=, which is inflected with reduplication -- from which a derivative [is] e)mpi/plhmi.[1] From this comes [pimpla=si] "[the fish] fill the recesses of the sheltering harbor."[2] This [comes] with another derivative, from which [is] plh/qw, as from nw= ["I swim"] [comes] nh/qw. And indeed from plw= [the optative is] plei/mhn, as from blw= [the optative is] blei/mhn. Of this the second person [is blei=o], "if you are hit while toiling [in battle] ..."[3]
So plei/mhn [occurs] and [so does] e)mplei/mhn.
Greek Original:
*)emplei/mhn: a)nti\ tou= koresqei/hn. *)aristofa/nhs *)axarneu=si: ba/llwn e)kei=non ou)k a)\n e)mplei/mhn li/qois. eu)ktikh=s e)gkli/sews tetu/xhken. e)/sti ga\r to\ e)mpiplw=, o(\ kata\ a)nadiplasiasmo\n ke/klitai: a)f' ou(= para/gwgon to\ e)mpi/plhmi. a)po\ tou/tou gi/netai to/, pimpla=si muxou\s lime/nos eu)o/rmou. tou=to de\ e(te/ra| paragwgh=|, a)f' ou(= to\ plh/qw, w(s a)po\ tou= nw= nh/qw. a)po\ dh\ tou= plw=, plei/mhn, w(s a)po\ tou= blw=, blei/mhn: ou(= to\ deu/teron, ei)/per ga/r ke blei=o poneu/menos. *plei/mhn ou)=n kai\ *)emplei/mhn.
Notes:
The main part of this entry comes from a scholion on Aristophanes, Acharnians 236 (web address 1); modern editions print there e)mplh|/mhn rather than this e)mplei/mhn.
[1] Both pi/mplhmi (athematic) and (more rarely) pimpla/w (thematic, contract verb) occur.
[2] Homer, Iliad 21.23, in a simile (web address 2).
[3] Homer, Iliad 13.288 (web address 3); referenced at beta 333.
Associated internet addresses:
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; military affairs; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 March 2007@01:14:28.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 14 March 2007@04:16:57.
David Whitehead (expanded n.1; tweaking) on 19 August 2012@05:59:55.
Catharine Roth (tweaks) on 6 February 2017@02:01:50.

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