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Headword:
*(/aloito
Adler number: alpha,1421
Translated headword: might spring
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] might move, might start.
"Might [= 'may'] the ivy of the stage always spring with soft feet on your polished grave, god-like
Sophocles."[1]
*(/aloito: kinoi=to, o(rmw=|to. ai)ei/ toi liparw=| e)pi\ sh/mati, di=e *sofo/kleis, skhni/ths malakou\s kisso\s a(/loito po/das.
Notes:
The headword is aorist optative, third person singular, of
a(/llomai (cf.
alpha 1326,
alpha 1380). Perhaps extracted from the quotation given. but see next note. (Other possibilities in
Xenophon,
Theocritus, etc.)
[1] A version (again at
sigma 569) of
Greek Anthology 7.36.1-2 which has the headword
a(/loito rather than
a)/roito. On this epigram, an epitaph for
Sophocles, see Gow and Page vol. I (252-253), vol. II (286), and its further extracts at
alpha 145 and
beta 453.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1968)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: The Garland of Philip and Some Contemporary Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1968)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2000@07:22:40.
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