Suda On Line menu Search

Home
Search results for phi,162 in Adler number:
Greek display:    

Headword: *fai/hmen
Adler number: phi,162
Translated headword: we might assert
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] we might say.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] fai/hs ken ["you might assert"].[2]
Greek Original:
*fai/hmen: ei)/poimen. kai\ *fai/hs ken.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in the Synagoge and Photius (and cf. phi 161). The headword is first person plural, present optative, of fhmi/. It must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] Second person singular, present optative, of fhmi/; quoted (according to Adler) from Homer, Iliad 3.220 (but the phrase occurs also in other poets).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 30 November 2010@01:25:56.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; tweaks) on 30 November 2010@03:26:02.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@04:34:18.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 7 May 2014@00:31:52.

Find      

Test Database Real Database

(Try these tips for more productive searches.)

No. of records found: 1    Page 1

End of search