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Headword: *)akata/blhton
Adler number: alpha,811
Translated headword: irrefragable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one that is] unconquerable; from not striking down; that is, the [argument] which nothing strikes down.[1] Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "for then Pheidippides had not yet learned the irrefragable argument for me."[2]
Greek Original:
*)akata/blhton: a)h/tthton: para\ to\ mh\ kataba/llein: toute/sti to\n mhde\n kataba/llonta. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: ou) ga/r pw to/t' e)chpi/stato *feidippi/dhs moi to\n a)kata/blhton lo/gon.
Notes:
The headword adjective, extracted from the quotation given, is masculine accusative singular.
[1] This is what the sense of the gloss requires, though the Greek seems actually to say "that which strikes nothing down".
[2] Aristophanes, Clouds 1228-9 (web address 1 below), with scholion.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 6 November 2000@22:49:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 14 February 2001@05:56:41.
David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 24 December 2006@08:19:35.
Catharine Roth (modified link) on 24 December 2006@16:19:10.
David Whitehead (added primary note; tweaks) on 23 January 2012@07:15:47.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 27 January 2012@02:23:41.
David Whitehead on 4 May 2015@11:15:16.
Catharine Roth (tweak) on 5 May 2015@23:22:20.
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