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Headword:
Aglôttia
Adler number: alpha,271
Translated headword: tonguelessness
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] quiet, silence.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tongueless, [meaning] voiceless, speechless.
"Now having fallen to the earth, tongueless and voiceless, I lie, refusing emulous ambition."[2]
Greek Original:Aglôttia: hêsuchia, siôpê. kai Aglôssos, ho anaudos, ho aphônos. nun eis gan aglôssos, anaudêtos te pesousa, keimai, mimêtên zêlon anênamenê.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha202 Theodoridis.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.191.5-6 (
Archias), epitaph for a jay; cf. Gow and Page (412-413); more fully at
alpha 2757, cf.
alpha 2742 and
kappa 1422. For other applications of the adjective, including the literal (
Aristotle on the crocodile), see LSJ s.v. (web address 2).
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; medicine; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Roger Travis on 6 October 2000@12:53:45.
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