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Headword: *)opth=ras
Adler number: omicron,488
Translated headword: watchers
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] spies.[1]
"And a certain watcher who has seen him leaping with a fresh-reeking sword tells me." Sophocles [writes this].[2]
Greek Original:
*)opth=ras: katasko/pous. kai/ moi/ tis au)to\n su\n neorra/ntw| ci/fei o)pth\r e)sidw\n phdw=nta fra/zei. *sofoklh=s.
Notes:
[1] The headword is accusative plural of o)pth/r; same or similar glossing in other lexica (references at Photius omicron421 Theodoridis), and in a scholion on Homer, Odyssey 14.261 [= 17.430], where it occurs.
[2] Sophocles, Ajax 29-30 (web address 1), quoted already at nu 201.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 February 2010@01:27:43.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaks) on 9 February 2010@03:00:55.
David Whitehead on 7 July 2013@04:58:27.

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