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Headword:
*)agw/nisma
Adler number: alpha,336
Translated headword: achievement, prize
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] effort, diligence.[1]
"An achievement is there for him to take".[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "personally, I would like to meet some ("wild beast" is left out) and take an achievement worthy of the journey."[3]
A prize.
*)agw/nisma: spoudh/n, e)pime/leian. a)gw/nisma ti/qetai sullabei=n au)to/n. *)aristofa/nhs: e)gw\ d' eu)cai/mhn a)\n e)ntuxei=n tini [lei/pei qhri/w|] labei=n t' a)gw/nism' a)/cio/n ti th=s o(dou=. e)/paqlon.
Notes:
[1] This glossing shows that the headword, a neuter noun, is in the accusative case, and thus extracted from somewhere other than the quotation about to be given (where it is nominative).
[2] Quotation (also in the
Lexicon Vindobonense) unidentifiable.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Frogs 283-4 (web address 1 below). For the sense of
a)gw/nisma here (both a struggle and its reward) Dover ad loc. compares
Thucydides 7.59.2 (web address 2 below).
Aristophanes, Frogs, edited with introduction and commentary by K.J. Dover (Oxford 1993)
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: athletics; biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; zoology
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 20 March 2001@15:31:38.
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