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Headword: *)/issa
Adler number: iota,605
Translated headword: issa! ha!
Vetting Status: high
Translation:

An exclamation addressed to those who are destitute and experiencing utter misfortune. It occurs in Menander's Messenia[1] and elsewhere.[2]

Greek Original:

*)/issa: e)pi/fqegma e)pi\ tw=n a)polaxo/ntwn kai\ o(/lws duspragou/ntwn. e)/sti kai\ e)n *messhni/a| *mena/ndrou kai\ e(te/rwqi.

Notes:

Also in Photius.
[1] Menander fr. 36 Kock, 273 K.-Th., now 233 K.-A.
[2] e.g. Plato Comicus fr. 66 Kock, now 68 K.-A. (i)ssai= in Herodas 3.93.)

Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 25 April 2006@08:22:35.
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Catharine Roth (coding, status) on 25 April 2006@10:54:39.
David Whitehead (augmented n.2) on 26 April 2006@03:07:17.
David Whitehead on 15 January 2013@05:32:38.
David Whitehead on 3 September 2013@05:49:18.
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