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Headword:
*meqe/sqai
Adler number: mu,415
Translated headword: to dismiss
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to abandon.[1]
Sophocles [writes]: "and allow men who are your friends to rule your intentions; dismiss these thoughts."[2]
*meqe/sqai: katalipei=n. *sofoklh=s: kai\ do\s a)ndra/sin fi/lois gnw/mhsi fath=sai, ta/sde fronti/das meqe/sqai.
Notes:
[1] Likewise in other lexica. The headword (presumably quoted from somewhere) is aorist middle infinitive of
meqi/hmi; cf.
mu 417,
mu 418,
mu 419,
mu 424,
mu 425,
mu 426,
mu 427.
[2] A faulty version of
Sophocles,
Ajax 483-4 (web address 1) -- read
krath=sai instead of
fath=sai and, importantly in the present context,
meqei/s (aorist participle) instead of the infinitive
meqe/sqai.
Web address 1
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 February 2006@21:39:12.
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