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Headword: *limh/n
Adler number: lambda,545
Translated headword: haven
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Sophocles [writes]: "for to the majority of mortals the haven of comradeship is distrusted." [1] [A 'haven' is] where there would be a love of comradeship.
Greek Original:
*limh/n: *sofoklh=s: toi=s polloi=si ga\r brotw=n a)/pistos e)/sq' e(tairei/as limh/n. i(/n' h)=| th=s e(tairei/as fili/a.
Notes:
The unglossed headword -- illustrating here the figurative sense of the noun limh/n "harbour" (see LSJ s.v., II) -- is presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[1] Sophocles, Ajax 682-683, with scholion; more fully, already, at alpha 655.
Keywords: ethics; geography; imagery; tragedy
Translated by: Craig Gibson on 3 June 2009@22:26:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked tr; added primary note; modified and augmented keywords; cosmetics) on 4 June 2009@04:53:26.
David Whitehead on 19 April 2013@05:14:09.
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