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Headword:
Ἀπηχές
Adler number: alpha,3189
Translated headword: discordant
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Properly, something hard. [Something] false, grievous, unpleasant, hateful.[1]
Something from the very sound of which we turn away.[2]
"Not to rebuke in a reproachful way those who utter something barbarous or ungrammatical or discordant."[3]
"[He] awaiting a highly novel and discordant death."[4]
Greek Original:Ἀπηχές: κυρίως τὸ σκληρόν. ψευδὲς, δύσφορον, ἀηδὲς, ἐχθρόν. οὗ καὶ τὸν ἦχον ἀποστρεφόμεθα. μὴ ὀνειδιστικῶς ἐπιλαμβάνεσθαι τῶν βάρβαρον ἢ σόλοικόν τι ἢ ἀπηχὲς προενεγκαμένων. καινότατον δὴ περιμένων καὶ ἀπηχῆ θάνατον.
Notes:
The headword is neuter singular of this adjective. It must be quoted from somewhere, probably the first quotation given below, though there are numerous other possibilities.
cf. generally
alpha 3190,
alpha 3191,
alpha 3192.
[1] Also in
Photius and elsewhere.
[2] Also in ps.-
Zonaras and elsewhere.
[3] Marcus Aurelius,
Meditations 1.10.2; cf.
epsilon 2431.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable (Attributed by Adler to Symeon Metaphrastes, Lives of the Saints.)
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 25 May 2000@11:40:45.
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