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Headword:
*)/erdoi
Adler number: epsilon,2913
Translated headword: might do, might perform
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] might accomplish, might work on.[1]
"Might [ = may] each man perform whatever skill he might know."[2]
Greek Original:*)/erdoi: pra/ttoi, e)rga/zoito. e)/rdoi tis h(\n e(/kastos ei)dei/h te/xnhn.
Notes:
[1] Verbs in the optative, third person singular. For this general equivalence see already
epsilon 2912. Specifically, the first gloss here is also in
Hesychius epsilon5676, where Latte claims the headword as quoted from
Homer,
Iliad 14.261 (
e(/rdoi there).
[2]
Aristophanes,
Wasps 1431 (web address 1); quoted again at
epsiloniota 26.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 8 May 2005@20:11:31.
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