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Headword: Zê
Adler number: zeta,48
Translated headword: live
Vetting Status: low
Translation:

Euripides [uses ζῆ ] instead of ζῆθι .[1]
[It is] also [used] instead of ζέει ["it boils"]. "Pot boils, friendship lives": [a proverb] in reference to those who join in friendship at a dinner.[2]
Also ζῇ [is used] meaning "exists, is alive."

Greek Original:

Zê: anti tou zêthi. Euripidês. kai anti tou zeei. Zê chutra, zê philia, epi tôn deipnôi suniontôn eis philian. kai Zêi, anti tou huparchei, bioi.

Notes:

[1] That is, as an imperative: Euripides, Iphigeneia in Tauris 699 (web address 1).
[2] Zenobius 4.12, etc. (Or perhaps "Let the pot boil, let friendship live": again at zeta 96.

Associated internet address:
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Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 10 December 2003@01:07:33.
Vetted by:

David Whitehead (augmented n.2, and keywords; cosmetics) on 10 December 2003@03:23:45.
Ross Scaife (fixed betacode) on 10 December 2003@11:44:47.

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