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Headword:
*pantoligoxro/nios
Adler number: pi,239
Translated headword: all-too-short-lived
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] extremely short-lived. "And lately a bride all-too-short-lived"[1].
Greek Original:*pantoligoxro/nios: pantelw=s o)ligoxro/nios. a)/rti de\ kai\ nu/mfh pantoligoxro/nios.
Notes:
[1]
Greek Anthology 7.167.6, attributed either to
Dioscorides or to
Hecataeus of
Thasos (with a two-word phrase,
pa/nt' o)ligoxro/nios, which has become the present single headword).
cf. the common trope of the virgin "married" to death instead of a husband: see R. Rehm,
Marriage to Death: The conflation of wedding and funeral rituals in Greek tragedy. Princeton, 1994.
Translated by: Alex Gottesman on 24 March 2003@19:41:22.
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