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Headword: *)/anews
Adler number: alpha,2284
Translated headword: mute
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] voiceless.[1]
In the Fables: "so they spoke, nor was the king mute."[2]
Greek Original:
*)/anews: o( a)/fwnos. e)n *muqikoi=s: w(\s fa/san: ou)de\ a)/nac a)/news h)=n.
Notes:
[1] From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 2.323, where the headword occurs in the dative case.
[2] Fragment of a dactylic fable, in appendix to Crusius' edition of Babrius, Mythica 13, p. 218.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; meter and music; poetry
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 15 June 2000@12:28:32.
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Catharine Roth (modified translation, added note) on 19 September 2001@17:43:32.
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