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Headword:
Ἀστεμφέα
Adler number: alpha,4229
Translated headword: unshaken
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Unmoved,[1] solid; or standing for ἀστεμφῆ .[2]
"Unshaken foot-trap and reed catches."[3]
And elsewhere: "these men, unshaken and disdainful of rhetoric and poetry, do not seem to me to be willing to be acquainted with god and men. In poverty of spirit [they are] not even adequate in small things."[4]
Greek Original:Ἀστεμφέα: ἀμετακίνητον, βέβαιον: ἢ ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀστεμφῆ. ἀστεμφῆ ποδάγρην καὶ δόνακας ἀντυκτῆρας. καὶ αὖθις: οἱ δὲ ἀστεμφεῖς οὗτοι καὶ ὑπερόπται ῥητορικῆς καὶ ποιήσεως οὔ μοι δοκοῦσιν ἑκόντες εἶναι συνέσεσθαι θεῷ καὶ ἀνθρώποις. πενίᾳ δὲ φύσεως μηδὲ τὰ σμικρὰ ἱκανοί.
Notes:
[1] Also in
Hesychius; from the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 2.344, where the headword (accusative singular of this adjective) occurs.
[2] i.e. the contracted form, as in the quotation about to be given.
[3] Greek Anthology 6.296.1.
[4]
Synesius,
Dion (
PG 66.1125c-d).
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 5 January 2002@14:27:46.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (supplemented translation; added note and keyword; cosmetics) on 6 January 2002@06:45:45.
David Whitehead (more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 25 April 2012@08:06:28.
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