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Headword:
*pe/rasis
bi/ou
Adler number: pi,1033
Translated headword: completion of life
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the end [sc. of it]. "Grant [now] a completion of life and some closure, unless I am thought to be diminished for ever." [Meaning] unless I am thought to be lessened in evils and to need an addition of evils.
Also [sc. attested is the neuter plural] pe/rata,[2] [meaning] goals.
Greek Original:*pe/rasis bi/ou: h( teleuth/. do/te bi/ou pe/rasin kai\ katastrofh/n tina ei) mh\ dokw= ti meio/nws e)/xein a)ei/. ei) mh\ dokw= e)latto/nws e)/xein ta\ kaka\ kai\ dei=sqai prosqh/khs kakw=n. kai\ *pe/rata, te/lh.
Notes:
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus at Colonus 102-104 (prayer of the aged Oedipus), with scholion.
[2] Evidently quoted from somewhere, but far too common to track down.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 5 March 2010@06:14:56.
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