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Headword: Ἐφ' ἑστίας
Adler number: epsilon,3869
Translated headword: at the hearth
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
Meaning at home.[1]
Also [attested is the related adjective] ἐφέστιον , meaning being at the household, that is, neighboring. Sophocles [writes]: "then taking this scepter he planted it at the hearth."[2]
Greek Original:
Ἐφ' ἑστίας: ἀντὶ τοῦ κατ' οἶκον. καὶ Ἐφέστιον, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν οἰκίαν γενόμενον, τουτέστιν ἔποικον. Σοφοκλῆς: εἶτα τόνδ' ἐφέστιον πῆξαι λαβόντα σκῆπτρον.
Notes:
[1] The headword phrase is perhaps quoted from somewhere (e.g. Aeschylus, Agamemnon 427 or 1435), but in any event it is proverbial: see Appendix Proverbiorum 1.43 and the other paroemiographers.
[2] Sophocles, Electra 419-420 (web address 1) with scholion.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; poetry; proverbs; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Matthew Farmer on 6 November 2007@14:46:40.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 7 November 2007@00:01:28.
David Whitehead (augmented and rearranged notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 7 November 2007@03:40:08.
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