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Headword:
*paia/n
Adler number: pi,836
Translated headword: paean
Vetting Status: high
Translation: A kind of song.[1]
"The toad said lamenting, 'This is no cause for us to sing a paean, but rather for care and grief.'"[2]
Greek Original:*paia/n: ei)=dos w)|dh=s. o( d' ei)=pe klau/sas fru=nos, ou)xi\ paia=nos tou=t' e)sti\n h(mi=n, fronti/dos de\ lu/phs.
Notes:
[1] (See also
pi 837,
pi 838, and cf.
pi 841,
pi 842.) Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius pi11 Theodoridis.
[2]
Babrius 24.4-5. The manuscripts have
pau/sas "pausing" instead of
klau/sas "lamenting." The next (and final) three verses of this poem are quoted at
alpha 4421.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 October 2000@01:25:45.
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