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Headword:
*qrhnei=n
e)pw|da/s
Adler number: theta,480
Translated headword: to wail enchantments
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] to proclaim and to sing as an incantation.
Sophocles [writes]: "it is not for a wise doctor to wail enchantments over one who needs surgery". That is, it is not for a wise doctor to proclaim enchantments over a wound which already requires surgery.[1] And in
Herdsmen [he writes]: "for nowhere do I know of a gaping wound [sc. inflicted] by a word/speech."[2]
*qrhnei=n e)pw|da/s: e)pifwnei=n kai\ e)pa/|dein. *sofoklh=s: ou) pro\s i)atrou= sofou= qrhnei=n e)pw|da\s pro\s tomw=nti. toute/stin ou)k e)/stin i)atrou= sofou= e)pw|dai=s xrh=sqai tou= trau/matos h)/dh tomh=s deome/nou. kai\ e)n *poime/si: lo/gw| ga\r ou)de\n e(/lkos oi)=da/ pou xano/n.
Notes:
The headword phrase is quoted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Sophocles,
Ajax 581-582, with comment from the
scholia there; cf.
epsilon 2833,
pi 3143.
[2]
Sophocles fr. 467 (which has only a loose connection with the rest of the entry).
Translated by: Ryan Stone on 1 March 2008@21:51:05.
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