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Headword:
*)eleh/mwn
Adler number: epsilon,784
Translated headword: merciful, pitiful; susceptible
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [e)leh/mwn, genitive] e)leh/monos.
Meaning weaker [than]. "Alas, how I am always susceptible to golden vessels!"[1]
And it shortens [the omega in the oblique cases].[2]
Greek Original:*)eleh/mwn, e)leh/monos. a)nti\ tou= h(/ttwn. oi)/m', w(s e)leh/mwn ei)/m' a)ei\ tw=n xrusi/dwn. kai\ suste/llei.
Notes:
The headword adjective is normally used absolutely, and with the sense (appropriate to its etymology) of merciful or pitiful; but here
Aristophanes (below) uses it with a genitive, to mean having a susceptibility or weakness for something.
[1]
Aristophanes,
Peace 425 (web address 1), with scholion. (Hermes is speaking, and the final noun comes as an unexpected joke.) For
h(/sswn/
h(/ttwn in this sense of 'unable to resist' cf.
eta 630.
[2] Likewise, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon.
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Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 March 2006@18:56:08.
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