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Headword: *)/h|kei
Adler number: eta,169
Translated headword: was like
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Instead of e)w/|kei, [meaning he/she/it] was made similar.[1] "He [Midias] is called a quail, for indeed he was like a quail."[2] From the [verb] ei)/kw ["I liken"], [meaning] I make [something] similar.[3]
Greek Original:
*)/h|kei: a)nti\ tou= e)w/|kei, w(moi/wto. o)/rtuc kalei=tai, kai\ ga\r h)/|kei o)/rtugi. a)po\ tou= ei)/kw, to\ o(moiw=.
Notes:
[1] Contracted pluperfect of e)/oika, third person singular.
[2] Aristophanes, Birds 1298 (web address 1).
[3] cf. epsiloniota 91, epsiloniota 92.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; zoology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 July 2006@18:40:44.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmeticules) on 21 July 2006@03:52:48.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 7 December 2012@04:37:49.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 9 December 2012@18:44:27.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 4 August 2018@21:15:36.
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