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Headword: Ἀγηλατεῖν
Adler number: alpha,215
Translated headword: to banish as accursed
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
To drive out as a curse and accursed people.[1]
If [the breathing is] rough, [it means] to drive out curses; but if smooth, it means to drive away. "You seem to me to be in sad shape, you and the one who arranged to drive out these things".[2]
And Herodotus [writes]: "he arrived with a large force and drove out seven hundred Athenian families as accursed."[3]
Greek Original:
Ἀγηλατεῖν: ὡς ἄγος καὶ ἐναγεῖς τινας ἐλαύνειν. ἐὰν μὲν δασέως, τὸ τὰ ἄγη ἀπελαύνειν: ἐὰν δὲ ψιλῶς, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀπελάσειν. κλαίων δοκεῖς μοι καὶ σὺ χ'ὡ συνθεὶς τάδε ἀγηλατήσειν. καὶ Ἡρόδοτος: ὁ δὲ σὺν μεγάλῃ χειρὶ ἀπικόμενος ἀγηλατέει ἑπτακόσια ἐπίστια Ἀθηναίων.
Notes:
On this verb see already alpha 214.
[1] Same or similar glossing in other lexica.
[2] Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 401-2, with scholion.
[3] Herodotus 5.72.1 (web address 1 below) on king Cleomenes of Sparta in 510 BCE.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion; tragedy
Translated by: William Hutton on 22 October 2000@22:19:26.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (added note; cosmetics) on 23 October 2000@07:09:53.
David Whitehead (more keywords) on 27 March 2006@04:52:11.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 3 January 2012@08:29:18.
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