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Headword: *)isxu/wn
Adler number: iota,723
Translated headword: powerful
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
["The god,] who overtakes even the winged eagle and outstrips the dolphin in the sea".[1] Pindar says this.[2]
Greek Original:
*)isxu/wn: o(\s kai\ ptero/ent' a)eto\n ki/xe kai\ qalassai=on paramei/betai delfi=na: *pi/ndaros tou=to/ fhsin.
Notes:
[1] The implication is "powerful as a god". i)sxu/wn is often found in Jewish/Christian contexts to describe God’s power, e.g. Esther 4:17z LXX: o( qeo\s o( i)sxu/wn e)pi\ pa/ntas ["God powerful over all"].
[2] Pindar, Pythian 2.50-1 (web address 1), quoted in the scholia to Sophocles, Electra 696 (where the present headword occurs). See also theta 180, and generally iota 724.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; religion; tragedy; zoology
Translated by: Andrew Morrison on 10 December 2002@12:25:06.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 11 December 2002@03:30:52.
Catharine Roth (improved link) on 11 December 2002@11:03:10.
David Whitehead (another keyword; tweaking) on 16 January 2013@05:53:32.
Catharine Roth (coding, upgraded link) on 21 January 2013@02:12:29.
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