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Headword: Ἄραιτο
Adler number: alpha,3819
Translated headword: might lift, raise
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning he/she/it] might take,[1] might convey.
Euripides [writes]: "there is no story so terrible to speak of, neither suffering nor god-sent disaster, whose weight the nature of man could not lift."[1] And elsewhere: "[chariots and corpses] which not even a hundred Egyptians could lift." Often they mention Egyptians as bearers of burdens.[2]
Greek Original:
Ἄραιτο: λάβοι, κομίσειεν. Εὐριπίδης: οὐκ ἔστιν οὐδὲν δεινὸν ὧδ' εἰπεῖν ἔπος οὐδὲ πάθος οὐδὲ ξυμφορὰ θεήλατος, ἧς οὐκ ἂν ἄραιτ' ἄχθος ἀνθρώπου φύσις. καὶ αὖθις: οὓς οὐκ ἂν ἄραιντ' οὐδ' ἑκατὸν Αἰγύπτιοι. πολλαχοῦ ὡς ἀχθοφορούντων Αἰγυπτίων μέμνηνται.
Notes:
The headowrd is presumably extracted from the first quotation given.
[1] Same glossing in Hesychius.
[2] Euripides, Orestes 1-3 (web address 1 below).
[3] Aristophanes, Frogs 1406 (web address 2), with scholion; cf. alpha 4703.
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; geography; imagery; religion; science and technology; tragedy
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 11 July 2001@13:20:38.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (cosmetics) on 13 July 2001@04:46:46.
David Whitehead (augmented note and keywords; cosmetics) on 24 August 2002@08:51:33.
David Whitehead (more notes and keywords; tweaking) on 11 April 2012@04:36:06.
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