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Headword:
*(ayame/nh
Adler number: alpha,4724
Translated headword: having attached (herself)
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning she] having suspended [herself] from.[1]
And [the related infinitive] a(/yasqai is used in all [writers] to mean prosa/yasqai ["to attach to"] and qigei=n ["to touch"].
Also [sc. attested is the active infinitive] a(/yai ["to fasten"], [meaning] to fasten to [prosa/yai].
Greek Original:*(ayame/nh: e)carth/sasa. kai\ *(/ayasqai para\ pa=sin e)pi\ tou= prosa/yasqai kai\ qigei=n ta/ssetai. kai\ *(/ayai, prosa/yai.
Note:
[1] Likewise in other lexica. The headword (aorist middle participle, feminine nominative singular, of
a(ptw) must be quoted from somewhere -- probably (as Theodoridis on
Photius s.v. suggests)
Homer,
Odyssey 11.278, where it occurs in the story of the suicide, by hanging, of Epicaste/Jocasta; cf. the
scholia there.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; mythology; women
Translated by: Gabriel Bodard on 14 January 2001@23:58:42.
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