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Headword:
*)/afanton
fw=s
Adler number: alpha,4554
Translated headword: secret light
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] that [made] out of a fire-producing stone.[1]
Sophocles in
Philoctetes [writes]: "but rubbing stone on stones I laboriously brought forth a secret light, which preserves me always. For a roof to house [me] with a fire supplies everything, except my not being diseased."[2]
*)/afanton fw=s: to\ e)k puri/tou li/qou. *sofoklh=s *filokth/th|: a)ll' e)n pe/troisi pe/tron e)ktri/bwn mo/lis e)/fhn' a)/fanton fw=s, o(\ kai\ sw/|zei m' a)ei/. oi)koume/nh ga\r ou)=n ste/gh puro\s me/ta pa/nt' e)kpori/zei, plh\n tou= mh\ nosei=n e)me/.
Notes:
The headword phrase is extracted from the quotation given.
[1] cf.
pi 3217,
pi 3222.
[2]
Sophocles,
Philoctetes 296-299 (web address 1 below); cf. again
pi 3222.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; imagery; medicine; mythology; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 August 2001@17:03:38.
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