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Headword:
*diopteu/swn
Adler number: delta,1191
Translated headword: intending to spy upon
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] intending to look thoroughly, intending to watch closely.
Greek Original:*diopteu/swn: dioyo/menos, kataskoph/swn.
Note:
=
Synagoge delta312,
Photius delta647; cf.
Hesychius delta1902. From commentary to
Homer,
Iliad 10.451 (cf.
scholia to that passage), where Diomedes [
Author,
Myth] addresses Dolon with the words "(we will release you... yet you will come to us hereafter) either to spy upon us or to face us in a direct combat" (
h)e\ diopteu/swn h)\ e)nanti/bion polemi/cwn). See the text at web address 1. The future participle is used as the equivalent of a final clause, in connection with the verb
u(/steron ei)=sqa "you will come" of the previous line.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: Antonella Ippolito on 10 January 2005@22:00:36.
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