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Headword: *swkw=
Adler number: sigma,832
Translated headword: I have power
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] I have strength, I am able; but some [sc. say it is used] instead of sw/|zw ["I save"].[1] Sophocles [writes]: "no longer do I have power [to endure] alone the counterpoising burden of grief": as if [to say], [the burden] which weighs me down, and is brought down.[2]
Greek Original:
*swkw=: i)sxu/w, du/namai: oi( de\ a)nti\ tou= sw/|zw. *sofoklh=s: mo/nh ga\r ou)ke/ti swkw= lu/phs a)nti/rropon a)/xqos. oi(=on katabarou=n me, kai\ katafero/menon.
Notes:
[1] The headword is first person singular, present indicative, of the rare verb swke/w, attested in Aeschylus and Sophocles.
[2] Sophocles, Electra 119-120, with scholion; cf. (e.g.) Hesychius (sigma3064) Apollonius the Sophist (Homeric Lexicon 148.22-22), and Photius sigma924 Theodoridis.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 March 2014@22:55:42.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (expanded n.2; another keyword; cosmetics; raised status) on 17 March 2014@04:32:57.


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