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Headword:
*ai)nw=
Adler number: alphaiota,231
Translated headword: I approve, I decline
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] I beg off, refuse.[1]
Sophocles [sc. uses the word].[2] Also [sc. attested is]
e)painw= ["I approve, I thank you, I decline"].
Also [sc. attested is]
ai)nw= se ["I praise you"].[3]
*ai)nw=: paraitou=mai. *sofoklh=s. kai\ e)painw=. kai\ *ai)nw= se.
Notes:
The first and principal part of this entry occurs likewise or similarly in other lexica.
[1] See LSJ on
ai)ne/w II.3, explaining that this sense is not (as it might appear at first sight) the direct opposite of the mainstream meaning 'I praise'. (Compare the modern 'thanks, but no thanks'.)
[2]
Sophocles fr. 109 Radt.
[3] cf.
alphaiota 217.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 28 January 2003@01:05:51.
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