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Headword:
*(/erkos
Adler number: epsilon,3017
Translated headword: fence
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning an] enclosure, circumvallation.[1]
Aelian [writes]: "[...] to await the end of one's whole life, and not to leap forwards nor to enroll oneself among the blessed. For human affairs are uncertain, as long as for each [person] the life is inside the fence of the teeth."[2]
*(/erkos: peri/fragma, peritei/xisma. *ai)liano/s: bi/ou panto\s to\ te/los a)name/nein, mhde\ prophda=n mhde\ toi=s eu)dai/mosin e(auto\n e)gkatagra/fein. a)/dhla ga\r ei)=nai ta\ a)nqrw/pina, e(/ws a)\n e(ka/stw| h( yuxh\ ei)/sw tou= tw=n o)do/ntwn e(/rkous h)=|.
Notes:
[1] Similarly in other lexica and grammars, and in a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 1.284 (where the headword noun occurs). See also
epsilon 3015.
[2]
Aelian fr. 70b and 70c Domingo-Forasté (67 Hercher), alluding to the epic formula
e(/rkos o)do/ntwn, "the fence of the teeth." See also
tau 288.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 23 December 2007@18:12:56.
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