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Headword:
Aiei
Adler number: alphaiota,101
Translated headword: alway
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning always.[1]
"Alway may such enemies pursue me"; [sc. a proverbial phrase] in reference to people who are easy to despise.[2]
And elsewhere: "for alway your wife has you in her mouth." Meaning by means of her mouth.[3] "And whenever she takes [sc. in her mouth] an egg or an apple, she says, 'if only this could happen to Kinesias!'"[4]
Greek Original:Aiei: anti tou aei. Aiei me toioutoi polemioi diôkoien: epi tôn eukataphronêtôn. kai authis: aiei gar hê gunê s' echei dia stoma. anti tou dia stomatos. kan ôion ê mêlon labêi, Kinêsiai touti genoito, phêsi.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.107, where the headword occurs. (The headword
ai)ei/ is a poetic equivalent for the prosaic
a)ei/, so I have chosen an archaic synonym of 'always' for the translation both in the headword and in the examples.)
[2] cf.
Diogenianus 1.70; and see
alpha 629.
[3] From the
scholia to
Aristophanes, Lysistrata 855: see next note. The issue addressed is which case of the noun 'mouth' to use with the preposition
dia/:
Aristophanes has the accusative, while the scholiast uses the genitive.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 855-857 (web address 1). For Kinesias see
kappa 1639.
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Keywords: botany; comedy; daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; food; gender and sexuality; poetry; proverbs; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 7 November 2002@11:36:40.
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