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Headword: *qanatw=n
Adler number: theta,45
Translated headword: death-wishing, longing to die
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he] desiring death.[1]
"Vespasian ordered [them] not to fight it out with men longing to die; for nothing [is] braver than despair."[2]
Aeschylus [writes]: "for the only one of the gods [who] does not love gifts [is] death."[3]
Also attested is qanatw=n ["he putting to death"]; [used] with an accusative; and [meaning] one who is killing.[4]
Also [sc. attested is the phrase] qanatw=sin a)nqrw/pois ["to/with men longing to die"].[5]
Greek Original:
*qanatw=n: qana/tou e)piqumw=n. *ou)espasiano\s e)ke/leue mh\ sumple/kesqai qanatw=sin a)nqrw/pois: ou)de\n ga\r a)lkimw/teron a)pognw/sews. *ai)sxu/los: mo/nos qew=n ga\r qa/natos ou) dw/rwn e)ra=|. le/getai de\ qanatw=n: ai)tiatikh=|: kai\ o( a)pokte/nwn. kai\ qanatw=sin a)nqrw/pois.
Notes:
[1] For the desiderative verb qanata/w or qanatia/w, cf. theta 43. This is its present participle, masculine nominative singular; same or similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the scholia to Plato, Phaedo 64B (where qanatw=si occurs); evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2] Josephus, Jewish War 3.208 (web address 1); cf. Etymologicum Magnum 442.53.
[3] Aeschylus fr. 161.1 [fr. Niobe 168 Hermann], from numerous scholia (on Homer, Iliad 1.158, Sophocles, Electra 139, and Aristophanes, Frogs 1392) and also in Stobaeus, Anthology 4.51.1; cf. delta 1451, mu 1235, pi 14.
[4] Same glosses -- on the present participle of the verb qanato/w ["I put to death"] -- in Photius and the Lexica Segueriana (except for ai)tiatikh=| which is added from a syntactic source). See also epsilon 295.
[5] From the Josephus passage already quoted.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; philosophy; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 September 2007@20:52:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 September 2007@04:49:06.
David Whitehead (augmented n.3, with material from Patrick Lake; cosmetics) on 29 June 2010@04:03:28.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; more keywords; tweaking) on 24 December 2012@08:48:50.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 27 December 2012@19:55:55.
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