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Headword:
*)ef'
e(sti/as
Adler number: epsilon,3869
Translated headword: at the hearth
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning at home.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective]
e)fe/stion, meaning being at the household, that is, neighboring.
Sophocles [writes]: "then taking this scepter he planted it at the hearth."[2]
*)ef' e(sti/as: a)nti\ tou= kat' oi)=kon. kai\ *)efe/stion, a)nti\ tou= e)pi\ th\n oi)ki/an geno/menon, toute/stin e)/poikon. *sofoklh=s: ei)=ta to/nd' e)fe/stion ph=cai labo/nta skh=ptron.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase is probably quoted from somewhere (e.g.
Aeschylus,
Agamemnon 427 or 1435), but in any event it is proverbial: see
Appendix Proverbiorum 1.43 and the other paroemiographers.
[2]
Sophocles,
Electra 419-420 (web address 1), with scholion.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; proverbs; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Matthew Farmer on 6 November 2007@14:46:40.
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