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Headword:
ᾜα
Adler number: eta,8
Translated headword: I went
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Disyllabic form of "I went," written with an iota. The Ionians say [sc. trisyllabic]
ἤϊα , also
ἤϊσαν , for
ᾔσαν [sc. in the third person plural]. This form must be read in
Thucydides: "they were at their peak [going] into it."[1]
Aristophanes in
Merchant Ships: "When I got to where I went to the timber-market."[2]
ᾜα: δισυλλάβως τὸ ἐπορευόμην, σὺν τῷ ι γράφεται. οἱ γοῦν Ἴωνες ἤϊα λέγουσι, καὶ ἤϊσαν, τὸ ᾔεσαν. καὶ παρὰ Θουκυδίδῃ οὕτως ἀναγνωστέον, ὅτι ἀκμάζοντές τε ἤϊσαν ἐς αὐτόν. Ἴωνες ᾔεσαν καὶ ἤϊσαν. Ἀριστοφάνης Ὁλκάσιν. ἐπεὶ δ' ἐγενόμην οἷπερ ἤϊ' ἐπὶ ξύλα.
Notes:
See Smyth sections 773 ff. and LSJ s.v. (web address 1).
[1]
Thucydides 1.1.1 (web address 2) on
Athens and
Sparta at the outset of the Peloponnesian War.
[2]
Aristophanes fr.403 Kock.
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; historiography; science and technology
Translated by: Anne Mahoney on 4 December 1999@17:30:16.
Vetted by:Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 18 October 2002@11:48:32.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 18 October 2002@11:50:31.
David Whitehead (modified translation; augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 19 October 2003@06:19:44.
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