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Headword: *ai)=ya
Adler number: alphaiota,393
Translated headword: swiftly
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning speedily.[1] And Homer [writes]: "for swiftly do mortals grow old in affliction."[2]
Greek Original:
*ai)=ya: a)nti\ tou= taxe/ws. kai\ *(/omhros: ai)=ya ga\r e)n kako/thti brotoi\ kataghra/skousin.
Notes:
See already alphaiota 392, and cf. alphaiota 394.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica, including Apollonius' Homeric Lexicon, and in the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.303, where this adverb occurs.
[2] Homer, Odyssey 20.360.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; medicine; poetry
Translated by: William Hutton on 11 February 2003@15:15:09.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added notes) on 12 February 2003@05:54:10.
David Whitehead (another note; more keywords; cosmetics) on 17 May 2012@09:46:41.
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