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Headword:
Ἀλιπαρῆ
Adler number: alpha,1239
Translated headword: miserable, unfit for a suppliant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Meaning wretched. Or importunate, out of which [sc. comes the idea that] we will importune [
λιπαρήσομεν ] him.
Sophocles [writes]: "and from poor me, these things small but nonetheless wh' I have, give him: this miserable hair, and my girdle, not wrought with daintiness."[1]
Ἀλιπαρῆ: ἀντὶ τοῦ αὐχμηράν. ἢ λιπαρῆ, ἐξ ἧς αὐτὸν λιπαρήσομεν. Σοφοκλῆς: κἀμοῦ ταλαίνης σμικρὰ μὲν τάδ', ἀλλ' ὅμως ἅχω, δὸς αὐτῷ τήνδ' ἀλιπαρῆ τρίχα καὶ ζῶμα τοὐμόν, οὐ χλιδαῖς ἠσκημένον.
Notes:
The headword, feminine accusative singular of this adjective, is extracted from the quotation given.
[1]
Sophocles,
Electra 450-452, with scholion; cf.
alpha 4709,
zeta 131.
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 May 2000@13:56:28.
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