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Headword:
Ἐγκόνει
Adler number: epsilon,108
Translated headword: hurry
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Instead of 'rush'; for you are hindering from dining those who are ready to eat.[1] "You have been preventing [them] for a long time."[2]
Also 'to hurry', [meaning] to get started.
Greek Original:Ἐγκόνει: ἀντὶ τοῦ σπεῦδε: μέλλοντας γὰρ ἐσθίειν ἐπέχεις δειπνεῖν. κατακωλύεις πάλαι. καὶ Ἐγκονεῖν, ἐνεργεῖν.
Notes:
Imperative of the verb
ἐγκονέω . For other forms of the same verb cf.
epsilon 107,
epsilon 109,
epsilon 110 and, for a nominal derivative,
epsilon 111.
[1] From a scholium to
Aristophanes,
Acharnians 1088 (web address 1).
[2] This sentence is not from the scholium but from the original line of
Aristophanes, which the bulk of the scholium is engaged in paraphrasing.
Web address 1
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; food; poetry; religion
Translated by: William Hutton on 19 September 2006@04:55:37.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 19 September 2006@05:31:19.
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