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Headword:
*to\
ga\r
e)sleu/ssein
Adler number: tau,725
Translated headword: for to look upon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: "[For to look upon] one's own suffering, when no one else has had a part in it, extends great pains." As if [to say], no one has joined in causing and has had a share in the faults; for companionship in faults brings comfort.
Greek Original:*to\ ga\r e)sleu/ssein oi)kei=a pa/qh, mhdeno\s a)/llou parapra/cantos, mega/las o)du/nas u(potei/nei: oi(=on mhdeno\s sumpra/cantos kai\ metasxo/ntos a(marthma/twn: h( ga\r koinwni/a tw=n a(marthma/twn fe/rei th\n paramuqi/an.
Note:
Sophocles,
Ajax 260-262, with scholion to 261; cf.
upsilon 611. Tecmessa is the speaker, in anapaestic meter.
Keywords: ethics; meter and music; mythology; tragedy; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 20 January 2014@23:16:25.
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