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Headword:
*)anu/parkton
Adler number: alpha,2786
Translated headword: non-existent
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that which does not exist.
Compare the Pindaric [phrase]: "What is anyone? What is he not? Man is a dream of a shadow."[1] Meaning more non-existent than the non-existent. But here[2] this word is nearer the truth than the Pindaric [phrase is]. For
Pindar made the exaggeration amongst things incapable of subsistence, whereas [
Sophocles did so] amongst things which appear and seem but in truth do not exist.
And
Homer in one [verse] has demonstrated this sufficiently: "earth nourishes nothing weaker than man."[3]
*)anu/parkton: to\ mh\ u(pa/rxon. pro\s to\ *pindariko/n: ti/ de/ tis; ti/ d' ou)/ tis; skia=s o)/nar a)/nqrwpoi. a)nti\ tou= a)nupa/rktou a)nuparkto/teron. e)ntau=qa de/ e)stin o( lo/gos e)ggute/rw th=s a)lhqei/as h)/per to\ *pindariko/n. o( me\n ga\r *pi/ndaros e)n toi=s a)susta/tois pepoi/htai th\n u(perbolh/n, o( de\ e)n toi=s fainome/nois kai\ dokou=sin ou)x u(pa/rxousi de\ kata\ a)lh/qeian. kai\ *(/omhros di' e(no\s au)ta/rkws tou=to dedh/lwken: ou)de\n a)kidno/teron gai=a tre/fei a)nqrw/poio.
Notes:
The headword is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective.
[1]
Pindar,
Pythian 8.95, but here misquoted by the lexicographer with
anthropoi, "men", for the singular
anthropos, "man". See web address 1.
[2] In
Sophocles,
Ajax 125-6 (on man as an empty shadow: see web address 2 and
epsiloniota 46), the
scholia on which have supplied the material for the present entry.
[3]
Homer,
Odyssey 18.130. See web address 3.
Web address 1,
Web address 2,
Web address 3
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; dreams; epic; philosophy; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 12 November 2000@21:10:14.
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