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Headword:
*)ecwmma/twtai
Adler number: epsilon,1837
Translated headword: has had [one's] eyes opened
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] is seeing intensely.[1] For the prefix
e)/c ["from"] indicates intensity; as [in] "loving from the heart" [
e)k qumou=].[2] Or [perhaps] rather he says this jokingly in reference to loss [of eyesight].
Aristophanes in
Wealth [writes]: "[Wealth] has had his eyes opened and his pupils shine."[3]
*)ecwmma/twtai: e)pitetame/nws o(ra=|. h( ga\r e)/c pro/qesis e)pi/tasin dhloi=: w(s, e)k qumou= file/wn. h)\ ma=llon pai/zwn e)pi\ sterh/sews le/gei. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: e)cwmma/twtai kai\ lela/mprutai ko/ras.
Notes:
[1] The headword is perfect middle-passive of
e)commato/w, third person singular; extracted from the Aristophanic quotation given.
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 9.343.
[3]
Aristophanes,
Wealth [
Plutus] 635 (web address 1: read
lela/mpruntai for the Suda's
lela/mprutai); the entry is derived from a scholion on this verse.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; imagery; medicine
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 August 2007@01:17:01.
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