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Headword:
*metaxroni/a
Adler number: mu,748
Translated headword: high in the air
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] she who/that which is being carried on high.[1]
"For what [is] an appropriate fee from you to me, if I teach you to fly high in the air on high over the sea?"[2]
Greek Original:*metaxroni/a: h( ei)s u(/yos ferome/nh. ti/s ga\r e)moi\ se/o misqo\s e)pa/cios, h)/n se dida/cw u(you= u(pe\r po/ntoio metaxroni/hn pote/esqai;
Notes:
[1] On this adjective see generally LSJ s.v., at web address 1 (wrongly presenting it, however, as a two-termination one). Its primary meaning there is 'later in time', but also registered is the sense appropriate here.
[2] Fragment of a fable in hexameters, included by Crusius in an appendix to his edition of
Babrius, p. 218.
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Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; epic; ethics; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 September 2001@18:12:33.
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