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Headword:
*th=s
Adler number: tau,536
Translated headword: of the
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning "of this."[1] But it is not an article.[2]
Homer [writes]: "never to mount the bed."[3] Meaning "this" [bed]. And in [the]
Odyssey: "because of the virtue."[4] Meaning "this" [virtue].
*th=s: a)nti\ tou= tau/ths. ou)k e)/sti de\ a)/rqron. *(/omhros: mh/pote th=s eu)nh=s e)pibh/menai. a)nti\ tou= tau/ths. kai\ e)n *)odussei/a|: ei(/neka th=s a)reth=s. a)nti\ tou= tau/ths.
Notes:
[1] Feminine genitive singular.
[2] From
scholia to the Homeric verses about to be quoted. The pronoun/adjective
o(,
h(,
to/ was originally a demonstrative, as in the epic dialect. It later became reduced to the function of a definite article.
[3]
Homer,
Iliad 9.133 (web address 1).
[4]
Homer,
Odyssey 2.206 (web address 2).
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 22 November 2000@15:01:59.
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