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Headword:
*memaui=a
Adler number: mu,554
Translated headword: eager
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning she] desiring, longing.[1] "For though she desired it, Clotho could not find among mortals another slayer for this man [Ajax]."[2]
Greek Original:*memaui=a: proqumoume/nh, glixome/nh. ou)de\ ga\r e)n qnhtoi=sin h)du/nato kai\ memaui=a eu(re/menai *klwqw\ tw=|d' e(/teron fone/a.
Notes:
[1] Feminine nominative singular participle of the perfect
me/mona (
mu 571); cf.
mu 552. From a scholion on
Homer,
Iliad 4.73.
[2]
Greek Anthology 7.148.3-4 (anonymous): no one but Ajax himself could slay Ajax; cf.
kappa 1832.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; military affairs; mythology; poetry
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 16 February 2006@01:13:17.
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