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Headword: Ἀγλωττία
Adler number: alpha,271
Translated headword: tonguelessness
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Quiet, silence.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the related adjective] tongueless, [meaning] voiceless, speechless.
"Now having fallen to the earth, tongueless and voiceless, I lie, refusing emulous ambition."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἀγλωττία: ἡσυχία, σιωπή. καὶ Ἄγλωσσος, ὁ ἄναυδος, ὁ ἄφωνος. νῦν εἰς γᾶν ἄγλωσσος, ἀναύδητός τε πεσοῦσα, κεῖμαι, μιμητὴν ζῆλον ἀνηναμένη.
Notes:
LSJ entry at web address 1.
[1] Same glossing in other lexica.
[2] Greek Anthology 7.191.5-6; more fully at alpha 2757. For other applications of the adjective, including the literal (Aristotle on the crocodile), see LSJ s.v. (web address 2).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; imagery; poetry; zoology
Translated by: Roger Travis on 6 October 2000@12:53:45.
Vetted by:
William Hutton (Modified translation, cosmetics, set status) on 18 June 2001@01:53:38.
David Whitehead (augmented note; cosmetics) on 18 June 2001@03:12:08.
David Whitehead on 18 June 2001@03:13:41.
Catharine Roth (added links) on 19 June 2001@21:31:08.
Catharine Roth (restored punctuation) on 12 February 2007@14:11:59.
David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; raised status) on 13 February 2007@03:07:33.
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 5 January 2012@04:52:54.
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