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Headword:
*)/hra
Adler number: eta,447
Translated headword: loved
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was desiring, was longing for, had a passion for.[1]
"But Abraham loved a Roman battle, always supposing somehow that fortune was laughing at him."[2]
"A certain man loved an ugly slave-woman of evil character."
Babrius [sc. writes this].[3]
And elsewhere: "[he] loved to see a barbarian corpse even if it had been slain by another."[4]
Greek Original:*)/hra: e)pequ/mei, e)gli/xeto, e)rwtikw=s ei)=xen. o( de\ *)abraa\m h)/ra *(rwmai+kh=s parata/cews a)ei/ pws au)tw=| gela=n th\n tu/xhn oi)o/menos. ai)sxra=s tis h)/ra kai\ kakotro/pou dou/lhs. *ba/brios. kai\ au)=qis: h)/ra nekro\n i)dei=n ba/rbaron kai\ u(p' a)/llou pefoneume/non.
Notes:
[1] Perhaps from a scholion on
Aristophanes Acharnians 146, "he loved to eat sausages" (text at web address 1); cf. in any event
eta 448 and
epsilon 2887.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.7.1; on the Persian general--and later rebel--Baram (cf.
beta 103; a name error in the Suda), anticipating an engagement with the Romans in the summer of 589; cf. de Boor (122) and Whitby (81).
[3]
Babrius 10.1.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
References:
C. de Boor, ed., Theophylacti Simocattae Historiae, (Leipzig 1887, reprint 2022)
M. Whitby and M. Whitby, eds. and trans., The History of Theophylact Simocatta, (Oxford 1986)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 February 2001@22:39:17.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (added keywords; minor cosmetics) on 17 August 2001@08:34:17.
David Whitehead on 17 August 2001@08:36:16.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 21 March 2011@11:18:47.
David Whitehead on 18 December 2012@08:13:09.
Catharine Roth (upgraded link) on 22 December 2012@21:27:08.
Ronald Allen (tweaked translation after discussion with Catharine Roth) on 15 March 2025@11:59:20.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2; added bibliography, cross-reference, and keyword) on 15 March 2025@12:16:31.
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