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Headword: *po/lis
Adler number: pi,1912
Translated headword: city
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
"[The] city is full of both burning incenses and also of paeans and lamentations." In effect, those who have suffered nothing are sacrificing and singing paeans to avert evil, while those who have been caught up in domestic woes are lamenting.
Greek Original:
*po/lis: po/lis d' o(mou= me\n qumiama/twn ge/mei, o(mou= de\ paia/nwn te kai\ stenagma/twn: par' o(/son oi( me\n mhde\n peponqo/tes e)pi\ a)potroph=| tou= kakou= qu/ousi kai\ paia=nas a)/|dousin, oi( de\ e(alwko/tes e)p' oi)kei/ois kakoi=s a)poimw/zousi.
Notes:
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 4-5 (web address 1), with scholion.
For the headword see already pi 1911. For paeans see pi 836, pi 837, pi 838, etc.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; ethics; meter and music; religion; trade and manufacture; tragedy
Translated by: David Whitehead on 1 October 2012@09:58:17.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 1 October 2012@14:56:43.
David Whitehead (x-refs) on 2 October 2012@03:45:20.
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