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Headword: *)epi/stw
Adler number: epsilon,2637
Translated headword: understand
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] know.[1] "Know that Alkmene's son is alive and prevailing."[2] And elsewhere Sophocles [writes]: "and know this and write it in your heart. For you are sick but the pain came as a chance from the gods."[3] "Now understand that I am not ashamed for this."[4]
And Aristophanes [writes]: "pardon me, for I do not understand how to dig". Meaning I am not able [to].[5]
Greek Original:
*)epi/stw: gi/nwske. to\n ga\r *)alkmh/nhs to/kon kai\ zw=nt' e)pi/stw kai\ kratou=nta. kai\ au)=qis *sofoklh=s: kai\ tau=t' e)pi/stw kai\ gra/fe frenw=n e)/sw. su\ ga\r nosei=s, to\ d' a)/lgos e)k qei/as tu/xhs. ou) nu=n e)pi/stw tw=nde/ m' ai)sxu/nhn e)/xein. kai\ *)aristofa/nhs: su/ggnwqi/ moi: ska/ptein ga\r ou)k e)pi/stamai. a)nti\ tou= ou) du/namai.
Notes:
[1] The headword is present imperative singular of e)pi/stamai; cf. epsilon 2636.
[2] Sophocles, Trachiniae 182-3 (web address 1), with scholion
[3] Sophocles, Philoctetes 1325-7 (web address 2).
[4] Sophocles, Electra 616 (web address 3).
[5] Aristophanes, Birds 1432 (web address 4), with scholion; again at omicron 878, and cf. pi 913.
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Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; mythology; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 7 December 2007@00:58:13.
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David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 7 December 2007@03:36:09.
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