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Headword:
*la/kkos
Adler number: lambda,61
Translated headword: pit
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [A way of referring to] death; since the grave is dug very much like a pit.
David [says]: "and I will be made like those who go down into the pit."[1] The holy Scripture is also accustomed to use this name for the great dangers: "and he led me up from the pit of wretchedness."[2]
Interpretation of a dream: to let oneself down into a pit, this [is] not good.[3]
*la/kkos: o( qa/natos: e)peidh\ la/kkw| paraplhsi/ws o( ta/fos o)ru/ttetai. *dabi/d: kai\ o(moiwqh/somai toi=s katabai/nousin ei)s la/kkon. kai\ tou\s mega/lous kindu/nous ou(/tws e)/qos o)noma/zein th=| qei/a| grafh=|. kai\ a)nh/gage/ me e)k la/kkou talaipwri/as. lu/sis o)nei/rou: la/kkw| kaqei=nai sauto\n ou) kalo\n to/de.
Notes:
cf. generally
lambda 60.
[1]
Psalm 27(28).1, with Theodoret's commentary thereon (PG 80, 1057a).
[2]
Psalm 39(40).2, with Theodoret's commentary thereon (PG 80, 1152-3).
[3] From the dream interpretations, in verse, attributed to
Astrampsychus (
alpha 4251).
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 December 2001@22:23:08.
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