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Headword: *)amfi/puron
Adler number: alpha,1757
Translated headword: aflame, flaming
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one] burning on all sides.
Sophocles [writes]: "some of you set up the high flaming tripod at the time for the holy ablutions."[1]
Greek Original:
*)amfi/puron: pantaxo/qen purou/menon. *sofoklh=s: toi\ d' u(yi/baton tri/pod' a)mfi/puron loutrw=n o(si/wn qe/sq' e)pi/kairon.
Notes:
The headword is masculine accusative singular of this adjective -- rather than neuter nominative/accusative singular -- if extracted from the quotation given (there are other instances: see next note).
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 1404-6 (web address 1); cf. for the headword Sophocles, Trachiniae 214, and Euripides, Ion 212.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 August 2000@21:53:55.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (modified link, added keywords) on 27 July 2002@12:09:35.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 9 May 2004@10:50:14.
David Whitehead (another note and keyword) on 21 February 2012@06:29:47.
David Whitehead on 25 June 2015@03:08:05.
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