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Headword:
*)/emplhktoi
Adler number: epsilon,1027
Translated headword: capricious, impulsive
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning those who are] frivolous, changeable.[1] And
Homer [writes]: "capriciously he honors one mortal [...]."[2] And
Sophocles [writes]: "such men among mortals [are] capricious." That is, those who do not abide in their long-standing friendship and virtue."[3]
*)/emplhktoi: kou=foi, eu)meta/blhtoi. kai\ *(/omhros: e)mplh/gdhn e(/teron me\n ti/ei broto/n. kai\ *sofoklh=s: toioi/de me/n toi fw=tes e)/mplhktoi brotw=n. toute/stin oi( mh\ e)mme/nontes th=| a)rxai/a| fili/a| kai\ a)reth=|.
Notes:
[1] Nominative plural of this adjective (cf.
epsilon 1026), presumably quoted from
Sophocles: see n.3 below.
[2]
Homer,
Odyssey 20.132 (web address 1), with the related adverb
e)mplh/gdhn.
[3]
Sophocles,
Ajax 1358 (web address 2), with scholion.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 2 March 2007@01:01:36.
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