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Headword: *mh\ ou)xi/
Adler number: mu,967
Translated headword: not no
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Sophocles [writes]: "the boast is there, and I do not deny [sc. having done it], no." [i.e.] No[t] having dyed his sword in the army.[1]
Greek Original:
*mh\ ou)xi/: *sofoklh=s: ko/mpos pa/resti, kou)k a)parnou=mai to\ mh/. to\ mh\ ou)xi\ ba/yai to\ ci/fos e)n tw=| stratw=|.
Notes:
The (untranslatable) headword phrase mh\ ou)xi -- which does not actually occur in the quotation given -- is used with an infinitive after a verb with negative sense. See Smyth ยง2742 for a full grammatical explanation; web address 1.
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 96 (web address 2), with comment from the scholia there (referring back to Athena's question in line 95 e)/bayas e)/gxos eu)= pro\s )*argei/wn stratw=|;).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Richard Rodriguez on 11 July 2009@15:18:18.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplied a translated headword (however inadequate); another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 12 July 2009@06:07:22.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 6 July 2010@01:25:10.
David Whitehead on 22 May 2013@04:13:09.
Catharine Roth (cosmeticule) on 19 December 2014@19:40:26.
Catharine Roth (tweaked translation) on 1 September 2020@00:51:43.

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