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*kou/fois
Adler number: kappa,2199
Translated headword: light
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "Feed on [light] breezes, fostering your young soul." That is, on a light and tender life. From a metaphor of plants, which are not able to endure anything severe, neither heat nor wind. Ajax says [this] to his child.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] e)kkoufi/sas ["he having weighed anchor"], meaning he having arrived, he having sailed out. "Dionysios by name, merchant by profession, having often made many long sea-voyages, as profit stimulated him, and having weighed anchor beyond Maiotis,[2] purchases a Colchian girl, who had been kidnapped by the Makhlues, a tribe of the local barbarians."[3]
Greek Original:*kou/fois pneu/masi bo/skou, ne/an yuxh\n a)ta/llwn. toute/sti kou/fh| kai\ a(palh=| zwh=|. a)po\ metafora=s tw=n futw=n, a(/tina ou)de\n sfodro\n du/natai fe/rein, ou)/te kau/swna ou)/te a)/nemon. o( *ai)/as fhsi\ pro\s to\n pai=da au)tou=. kai\ *)ekkoufi/sas, a)nti\ tou= a)fiko/menos, e)kpleu/sas. *dionu/sios tou)/noma, e)/mporos to\ e)pith/deuma, dolixeu/sas polla/kis pollou\s plou=s, tou= ke/rdous u(poqh/gontos, kai\ peraite/rw th=s *maiw/tidos e)kkoufi/sas w)nei=tai ko/rhn *ko/lxon, h(\n e)lhi/+santo *ma/xlues, e)/qnos tw=n e)kei= barba/rwn.
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Keywords: biography; botany; children; definition; economics; geography; imagery; mythology; trade and manufacture; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2009@00:53:39.
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