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Headword: *)/hkaxes
Adler number: eta,161
Translated headword: you caused grief [to]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] you caused distress [to], you led astray.[1] "Ah, how great a mind of youths you have distressed! But behold, you dwell in lovely Lethe, having been laid in the earth." [This is written] about Lais the courtesan.[2]
Greek Original:
*)/hkaxes: e)lu/phsas, pare/treyas. a)= po/swn h)iqe/wn no/wn h)/kaxes: a)ll' i)/de, *lh/qhn nai/eis a)glai/+hn e)n xqoni\ katqeme/nh. peri\ *lai/+dos th=s e(tai/ras.
Notes:
[1] The headword (presumably extracted from the quotation given) is the reduplicated aorist of a)xe/w, second person singular; cf. alpha 822, alpha 823, and a scholion on Homer, Iliad 16.822 (where h)/kaxe occurs). See also eta 162.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.220.5-6 (but read po/son h)i+qe/wn no/on), with comment; an epitaph for Lais by Agathias Scholasticus. For Lais see lambda 40.
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; gender and sexuality; mythology; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 21 July 2006@01:33:29.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied headword; tweaked tr; more x-refs) on 21 July 2006@04:00:44.
Catharine Roth (modified translation) on 21 July 2006@11:10:50.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 December 2012@04:18:14.
Ronald Allen (added attribution n.2) on 7 September 2023@13:21:39.

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