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Headword: *fh/mh
Adler number: phi,269
Translated headword: prophecy, report, utterance
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[O] child of hope, immortal prophecy." [sc. The term is used] inasmuch as some people being in hope seek oracular responses from the god.[1]
And elsewhere: "report reveals the noble man even in the depths of earth." Euripides says [this].[2]
Greek Original:
*fh/mh: te/knon e)lpi/dos a)/mbrote fh/mh. par' o(/son e)n e)lpi/di tine\s gino/menoi xrhsmou\s ai)tou=sin a)po\ tou= qeou=. kai\ au)=qis: fh/mh to\n e)sqlo\n ka)n muxoi=s dei/knusi gh=s. *eu)ripi/dhs fhsi/.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 158, with scholion: here the Doric form fa/ma occurs (web address 1).
[2] Euripides fr. 865, quoted at Aeschines 1.128 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 October 2011@01:12:34.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (supplemented tr; added primary note; tweaks) on 14 October 2011@03:37:08.
David Whitehead on 8 December 2013@06:27:24.

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