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Headword:
*)/aelpton
Adler number: alpha,550
Translated headword: beyond expectation, unexpected, unhoped-for
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophocles [writes]: "nothing is beyond expectation, but the dreadful oath is conquered and so are stubborn minds." Ajax says [this].[1]
*)/aelpton [sc. is the same as]
a)ne/lpiston.[2]
Or [something] hard, difficult to manage.[3]
Greek Original:*)/aelpton: *sofoklh=s: ou)k e)/st' a)/elpton ou)de\n, a)ll' a(li/sketai xw) deino\s o(/rkos kai\ periskelei=s fre/nes. *ai)/as le/gei. *)/aelpton de\ a)ne/lpiston. h)\ sklhro\n, dusxere/s.
Notes:
The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is neuter nominative/accusative singular of this adjective.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 648-649 (web address 1); quoted again, more fully, at
pi 1281.
[2] Same gloss in Apollonius the Sophist; cf.
Hesychius. See also
alpha 551.
[3] In
Hesychius, as at
pi 1281, this is the gloss for
periskele/s.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; imagery; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 April 2000@11:21:21.
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