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Headword:
*eu)/a
Adler number: epsilon,3352
Translated headword: Eve
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The first woman and the universe's first transgression -- even though her husband Adam called her Zoe ['Life'], on the basis that she would be mother of the living.
Greek Original:*eu)/a: h( prw/th gunh\ kai\ prw/th tou= ko/smou para/basis: ei) kai\ o( *)ada\m o( a)nh\r au)th=s *zwh\n tau/thn ke/klhken, w(s e)some/nhn mhte/ra tw=n zw/ntwn.
Note:
For Adam, see generally
alpha 425; for Adam and Eve,
gamma 225. The present material (which does not appear in either of those entries, or indeed anywhere else in the Suda) reflects Christian-era comment on
Genesis 2-3. The closest parallel to it on the TLG actually post-dates the Suda: Neophytus Inclusus (12-13 cent.),
Commentary on Genesis ch.7
Translated by: James Cousins on 30 October 2002@19:06:38.
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