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Headword: *safh/s
Adler number: sigma,165
Translated headword: clear, evident, infallible
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] true. And Homer [says]: "[since you] know how to speak clear".[1] Meaning [to speak] truly. And Sophocles [says]: "if Zeus [is] still Zeus and Zeus' son Phoebus infallible".[2]
Greek Original:
*safh/s: a)lhqh/s. kai\ *(/omhros: e)pista/menos sa/fa ei)pei=n. a)nti\ tou= a)lhqw=s. kai\ *sofoklh=s: ei) *zeu\s e)/ti *zeu/s, xw) *dio\s *foi=bos safh/s.
Notes:
[1] Homer, Iliad 4.404; already at sigma 162.
[2] Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 623.
Keywords: definition; epic; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Marcelo Boeri on 21 January 2004@13:31:31.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (x-ref; another keyword; osmetics) on 22 January 2004@03:16:56.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 22 January 2004@11:14:26.
David Whitehead on 22 December 2013@08:33:21.

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