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Headword:
*zh=los
Adler number: zeta,56
Translated headword: honour, privilege
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Sophocles [writes]: "see the concubine of Ajax, who was the mightiest man of the army, [see] what menial tasks she tends to instead of such a honour!"
Greek Original:*zh=los: *sofoklh=s: i)/de th\n o(meune/tin *ai)/antos, o(\s me/giston i)/sxuse stratou=, oi(/as latrei/as a)nq' oi(/ou zh/lou tre/fei.
Notes:
Sophocles,
Ajax 501-503, quoted again at
iota 42 and
lambda 146.
The headword, extracted from the quotation, illustrates one of the recognized meanings of the noun
zh=los (for which see also
zeta 57). This sense, #II in LSJ, is otherwise attested mainly in
Demosthenes: see e.g. 18.120.
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; gender and sexuality; military affairs; rhetoric; tragedy; women
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 1 June 2005@14:14:01.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics, cross-reference, status) on 1 June 2005@15:49:13.
David Whitehead (another x-ref; modified keywords; cosmetics) on 2 June 2005@02:50:19.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 29 November 2012@05:33:14.
David Whitehead (supplemented tr; more tweaking) on 24 March 2016@09:23:22.
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