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Headword:
*)adrani/a
Adler number: alpha,522
Translated headword: powerless
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning something] weak.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related noun] a)drani/a ["powerlessness"], [meaning] incapacity, weakness.[2]
In the Epigrams: "he dedicated [his fishing gear to Hermes], fearing the powerlessness of old age."[3]
And elsewhere: "since he has outswum the better part of his youth, he is bound by powerlessness from old age".[4]
It also signifies a name of a river.[5]
But a)dranei/a with a diphthong [is] from the masculine form a)dranh/s.
Greek Original:*)adrane/s: a)sqene/s. kai\ *)adrani/a, h( a)dunami/a, a)sqe/neia. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: a)/nqeto deimai/nwn gh/raos a)drani/hn. kai\ au)=qis: e)pei\ parenh/cato to\ pleu=n h(/bhs, e)k gh/rws d' a)drani/h| de/detai. shmai/nei de\ kai\ o)/noma potamou=. *)adranei/a de\ di/fqoggon a)po\ tou= a)dranh/s a)rsenikou=.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha383 Theodoridis. The headword, neuter singular of this adjective [the SOL headword,
adrania, is the entry's supplementary one: see n.2 below], must be quoted from somewhere; there are numerous possibilities.
[2] Same in
Etymologicum Magnum 18.51 and elsewhere.
[3]
Greek Anthology 6.29.2 (Julian, prefect of Egypt). See another excerpt from this epigram at
alpha 1235.
[4]
Greek Anthology 6.296.5-6 (
Leonidas of
Tarentum), a dedication to Hermes of his implements by a huntsman who is retiring from his trade; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 123), (vol. II, 358-359), and further extracts from this epigram at
alpha 4229 and
tau 398.
[5] Presumably the R. Adranios, which flows down from Mt. Etna in eastern
Sicily: Barrington Atlas map 47 grid F3.
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge 1965)
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 16 March 2001@23:52:57.
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