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Headword: *fe/re
Adler number: phi,206
Translated headword: come now, well
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
As if [to say] "suppose".[1]
So [meaning] "come!" The construction [is] archaic.[2]
Aristophanes [writes]: "well, where will we find this man?"[3]
Greek Original:
*fe/re: oi(=on u(po/qou. a)/ge ou)=n. a)rxai/a h( su/ntacis. *)aristofa/nhs: fe/re, pou= to\n a)/ndra tou=ton e)ceurh/somen;
Notes:
[1] Also in Photius (phi112 Theodoridis) and a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 218, where the headword occurs; see LSJ s.v. fe/rw A.IX.
[2] Likewise from a scholion on Aristophanes, Clouds 218 (see web address 1).
[3] Aristophanes, Knights 145 (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 January 2011@20:02:47.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaks and cosmetics) on 23 January 2011@05:26:27.
David Whitehead on 5 December 2013@06:00:53.

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