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Headword: *sapra=s
Adler number: sigma,103
Translated headword: mellow
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] ancient. Aristophanes [writes]: "of peace mellow." Or old.
Greek Original:
*sapra=s: palaia=s. *)aristofa/nhs: ei)rh/nhs sapra=s. h)\ a)rxai/as.
Notes:
Aristophanes, Peace 554 (web address 1), with scholion.
LSJ s.v. claim the application of this adjective (cf. sigma 104, sigma 105) to peace as deliberately surprising, but see Platnauer's note.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Peace, edited with introduction and commentary by Maurice Platnauer (Oxford 1964)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery
Translated by: David Whitehead on 20 August 2012@09:27:58.
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