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Headword:
*)/ay
Adler number: alpha,4722
Translated headword: back, backwards
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] again.[1]
"I hold [it] back, and again I stay near." In the Epigrams.[2] Meaning I pull against, I overturn.
Greek Original:*)/ay: pa/lin. a)\y a)naseira/zw, kai\ pa/lin a)/gxi me/nw. e)n *)epigra/mmasi. a)nti\ tou= a)nqe/lkw, a)natre/pw.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius'
Homeric Lexicon. From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.60, where this adverb occurs.
[2]
Greek Anthology 5.241.2 (Paul the Silentiary); see already
alpha 2063. See other quotes from this epigram at
delta 85 and
sigma 280.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; poetry
Translated by: Gabriel Bodard on 5 April 1999@13:33:59.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified translation; added notes and keyword; cosmetics) on 14 June 2001@07:29:40.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords) on 9 May 2012@10:29:13.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 27 November 2014@01:12:44.
David Whitehead on 27 November 2014@02:57:28.
Ronald Allen (corrected Anthology reference, augmented n.2) on 30 July 2023@12:11:56.
Ronald Allen (added cross-references n.2) on 7 August 2023@12:56:59.
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