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Headword:
*ghrwboskw=
Adler number: gamma,250
Translated headword: I tend in old age
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I care for the elderly.[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "so that he would come to tend [them] in their old age for ever, up until they should come to the recesses of the god below."[2]
*ghrwboskw=: ghrotrofw=. *sofoklh=s: o(/pws ge/nhtai ghrobosko\s ei)s a)ei\, me/xris a)\n muxou\s ki/xwsi tou= ka/tw qeou=.
Notes:
[1] Same gloss in
Hesychius. See already
gamma 249.
[2]
Sophocles,
Ajax 570-1 (web address 1); cf.
mu 1496. In this verse the meter requires the spelling with omicron; according to LSJ s.v.
ghroboske/w the forms with omega (
ghrw-) could be from contraction of
ghrao- but are more probably misspellings. Cf.
gamma 251.
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Keywords: daily life; definition; ethics; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 July 2002@16:57:09.
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