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Headword: *ai)sxra\ gunh/
Adler number: alphaiota,353
Translated headword: ill-favoured woman
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning one who is] ugly.[1] Also [sc. attested is] ai)sxro/n ["(something) shameful"], [used] in reference to evil.
"Those around him recognized these things as shameful, and that the withdrawal was neither honorable in present circumstances nor safe for the future."[2]
Greek Original:
*ai)sxra\ gunh/: a)/morfos. kai\ *ai)sxro/n, e)pi\ kakou=. tau=ta ai)sxra\ me/n oi( a)mf' au)to\n e)gi/nwskon kai\ th\n a)poxw/rhsin ou)/te e)n tw=| parauti/ka eu)preph= ou)/te a)sfalh= e)s ta\ me/llonta.
Notes:
[1] cf. the scholia to Aristophanes, Ecclesiazusae 617, where something akin to the headword phrase occurs; and see also alphaiota 350.
[2] Arrian, fragmenta incerta 1.
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; women
Translated by: William Hutton on 14 February 2003@08:13:03.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 14 February 2003@08:54:33.
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