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Headword:
*sfada/zontes
Adler number: sigma,1707
Translated headword: struggling
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning they who are] being anxious, or being vexed.[1]
"[...] even as one struggling within with many words, as a sealed skin of new wine fermenting."[2]
Greek Original:*sfada/zontes: spw/menoi, h)\ dusforou=ntes. kai/per sfada/zwn e)/ndoqen polloi=s lo/gois, w(/sper tis a)sko\s de/smios gleu/kous ze/wn.
Notes:
[1] Likewise or similarly in other lexica, beginning with
Synagoge sigma394; references at
Photius pi853 Theodoridis. The headword
sfada/zontes is the present active participle, masculine nominative plural, of
sfada/zw (
sigma 1706,
sigma 1708 -- though note the view of Herodian the grammarian that it should be spelled
sfada/|zw). It must be quoted from somewhere; extant possibilities, all late, include ones in
Agathias and (favored by Theodoridis)
Palladius.
[2] Gregory of Nazianzus,
De vita sua 848-849 (based on
Job 32:19
LXX).
Keywords: Christianity; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; historiography; imagery; poetry
Translated by: Fred Jenkins on 10 September 2013@22:53:10.
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