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Hoi
Adler number: omicroniota,1
Translated headword: Where, whither
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Adverb of place, instead of
ὅπου ["where"].[1]
"O wretched man, whither have we sailed?"
Aristophanes.[2]
"Each man fled where he could."[3]
And again: "I must go where wisdom and the god lead me."[4]
"But understand into what dishonor you are leading me."[5]
Hoi: topikon epirrêma, anti tou hopou. ô dustênos, hoi peplôkamen; Aristophanês. epheugon de hoi edunato hekastos. kai authis: emoi de badistea, hoi sophia kai daimôn me agei. all' oun epistô g', hoi m' atimias ageis.
Notes:
[1] Relative adverb, originally a locative of the relative pronoun
ὅς . Cf.
omicroniota 2.
[2]
Aristophanes,
Thesmophoriazusae 878:
Euripides is speaking in mock-tragic style.
[3] Evidently another quotation, but too characterless to be identifiable.
[4] Philostratos,
Life of Apollonios of Tyana 1.18; also at
beta 19.
[5]
Sophocles,
Electra 1035.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 5 February 2002@22:33:33.
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