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Headword:
*)=w
lw=|ste
Adler number: omega,76
Translated headword: o finest (of friends)!
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] o best (of friends)!
Greek Original:*)=w lw=|ste: w)= be/ltiste.
Notes:
Likewise or similarly in other lexica.
Little semantic difference can be discerned between these two forms of address involving superlative adjectives; cf. generally
lambda 738. For the headword version see e.g.
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 1170-1;
Xenophon,
Hellenica 4.1.38,
Symposium 4.1;
Plato,
Gorgias 467B,
Laws 638A, 789A, 968A.
Keywords: daily life; definition; historiography; philosophy; tragedy
Translated by: William Bubelis on 5 May 2000@23:19:44.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplied headword; modified note; added keywords) on 25 September 2002@04:26:28.
David Whitehead (x-ref) on 31 October 2013@06:16:45.
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