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Headword:
*po/nos
po/nw|
po/non
fe/rei
Adler number: pi,2046
Translated headword: toil brings toil to toil
Vetting Status: high
Translation: The [preposition]
pro/s ['in addition'] is missing, so that it would be 'toil brings toil in addition to toil.' Also the 'toil to toil' is archaic, like 'work upon work',[1] but the second 'toil' is used colloquially, in the sense of 'weariness'. And
Homer [writes]: "everywhere evil is affixed to evil."[2] The same
Aristophanes in
Trachiniae [writes]: "for night brings on and night banishes the received toil."[3]
*po/nos po/nw| po/non fe/rei: lei/pei h( pro/s, i(/n' h)=|, o( po/nos pro\s tw=| po/nw| po/non fe/rei. kai/ e)sti to\ me\n po/nos po/nw| a)rxai+ko/n, w(s e)/rgon e)p' e)/rgw|, to\ de\ deu/teron po/non koinw=s, oi(=on ka/maton. kai\ *(/omhros: pa/nth de\ kako\n kakw=| e)sth/riktai. o( au)to\s *)aristofa/nhs e)n *traxini/ais: nu\c ga\r ei)sa/gei, kai\ nu\c a)pwqei=tai dedegme/non po/non.
Notes:
Sophocles,
Ajax 866, with comments from the
scholia.
[1] Hesiod,
Works and Days 382 (missed by Adler).
[2]
Homer,
Iliad 16.111, with some variant readings.
[3] An approximation of
Sophocles,
Trachiniae 29-30. The Suda's ascription of the quotation to
Aristophanes is not present in the Sophoclean
scholia from which the rest of the entry is drawn. This might suggest that the entry's composer was unaware of the origin of both the headword phrase and the material used to gloss it. Nevertheless mss M and G do, Adler reports, have the name
Sophocles. Bernhardy conjectured
o( au)to/s 'the same' without a proper name, so that different scribes might have supplied the name differently.
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; poetry; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 20 January 2013@23:29:25.
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