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Headword:
*bdu/llete
Adler number: beta,208
Translated headword: you are in deadly fear of
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] you disparage,[1] you are seized with fear, and you tremble.
Aristophanes [writes]: "why are you in deadly fear of us? Surely we do not seem to be many? But this is not even one ten-thousandth of us."[2]
*bdu/llete: eu)teli/zete, fobei=sqe, kai\ tre/mete. *)aristofa/nhs: ti/ bdu/llesq' h(ma=s; ou)/ti pou pollai\ dokou=men ei)=nai; kai\ mh\n me/ros g' h(mw=n ou)/pw to\ muriosto/n.
Notes:
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 354-5 (spoken by the women to the men's leader), with comment from the
scholia there.
For the verb see also
beta 209.
[1] This "synonym" does not seem to be in keeping with the other two, but it is the only definition offered by LSJ.
Reference:
Aristophanes, Lysistrata, edited with introduction and commentary by Jeffrey Henderson (Oxford 1987) 113
Keywords: comedy; definition; women
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 8 August 2002@16:48:39.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (rearranged and augmented notes; added keyword and bibliography) on 9 August 2002@03:07:26.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 24 May 2012@03:33:12.
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