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Headword:
Δύσθεος
Adler number: delta,1639
Translated headword: godless, ungodly
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Impious. “Godless and hateful girl, did you alone lose your father?”.
Greek Original:Δύσθεος: ἀσεβής. ὦ δύσθεον μίσημα, σοὶ μόνῃ πατὴρ τέθνηκεν;
Notes:
Sophocles,
Electra 289-90, with the gloss of the
scholia there; cf. also the
scholia to
Aeschylus,
Choephoroi 525.
The headword adjective occurs in
Aeschylus as well as
Sophocles (but not in
Euripides). Although it is a term of religious characteristics, we do not find it in Christian literature and it occurs only in 12th-century poetry (
Theodorus Prodromus and Constantinus Manasses).
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; religion; tragedy; women
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 22 March 2005@18:12:31.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (modified translation; streamlined notes; added a keyword) on 23 March 2005@06:01:54.
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