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Headword: *sebi/sai
Adler number: sigma,183
Translated headword: to worship, to honor
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Meaning to bless.[1] Aristophanes [writes]: "mine is easily trusting to worship divinities." That is, I am easily trusting in regards to singing hymns to the god and blessing [him]."[2]
Greek Original:
*sebi/sai: a)nti\ tou= eu)logh=sai. *)aristofa/nhs: eu)pi/stws de\ tou)mo\n dai/monas e)/xei sebi/sai. toute/stin eu)pi/stws e)/xw pro\s to\n qeo\n u(mnh=sai kai\ eu)logh=sai.
Notes:
[1] The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is the aorist active infinitive of sebi/zw; cf. sigma 175, sigma 178.
[2] Aristophanes, Thesmophoriazusae 105 (from a lyric passage: web address 1), with scholion.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; meter and music; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 18 October 2013@00:40:19.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 18 October 2013@03:49:57.
David Whitehead on 22 December 2013@09:13:49.

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