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Search results for epsilon,3148 in Adler number:
Headword:
*)es
kefalh/n
soi
Adler number: epsilon,3148
Translated headword: on your head
Vetting Status: high
Translation: An interjection of imprecation. For if someone says first that there will be difficulties, someone answers in response 'on your head!'
Greek Original:*)es kefalh/n soi: e)pifw/nhma kata/ras. proeirhko/tos ga/r tinos xalepa\ e)/sesqai, a)moibai/ws a)ntapokri/netai/ tis, e)s kefalh/n soi.
Notes:
Adler states that this entry derives from the 'fuller'
scholia to
Aristophanes Plutus [
Wealth] 526, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1), but no scholion on that passage is particularly close to the present entry.
For the idiom see LSJ s.v.
kefalh/, 1.4.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 May 2007@06:34:56.
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