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Headword:
*)=h
Adler number: eta,4
Translated headword: I was
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Used for
h)=n ["I was"] without the nu. "Just as I learned when I was a boy". [So says]
Aristophanes in
Birds.[1] Also in
Lysistrata: "I was ten years old".[2] [Also] used for
e)/a, [which becomes]
h)= by contraction.[3]
*)=h: xwri\s tou= n a)nti\ tou= h)=n. a)ll' oi(=a/per au)to\s e)/maqon o(/te pai=s h)=. a)nti\ tou= e)/a. *)aristofa/nhs *)/ornisi. kai\ e)n *lusistra/th|: h)= deke/tis. a)nti\ tou= e)/a, kata\ sunai/resin h)=.
Notes:
[1]
Aristophanes,
Birds 1363 (web address 1), with scholion.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Lysistrata 643 (web address 2), with scholion.
[3]
e)/a ("I was") is an Ionic form, used for example by
Herodotus.
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 4 December 1999@16:59:01.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified notes; added keyword; cosmetics) on 28 May 2001@08:45:26.
David Whitehead (expanded notes; another keyword) on 2 December 2012@08:01:53.
Catharine Roth (upgraded links) on 11 December 2012@01:07:09.
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