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Headword:
*luprh/
Adler number: lambda,847
Translated headword: wretched
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning one that is] poor.[1] "For [he] possessed this not large allotment on this wretched hill."[2]
Greek Original:*luprh/: penixra/. pe/pato ga\r ou) me/ga tou=to klh/rion e)n luprh=| th=|de gewlofi/h|.
Notes:
[1] Epic/Ionic feminine of the adjective
lupro/s (here in the nominative singular, perhaps quoted from
Homer,
Odyssey 13.243), for which see also
lambda 846,
lambda 848. It occurs in the dative in the quotation which follows.
[2]
Greek Anthology 6.98.5-6 (
Zonas): cf.
gamma 162,
pi 993. See further excerpts from this epigram at
lambda 533 and
omicron 153.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 4 April 2009@13:37:38.
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