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Headword:
Μυχός
Adler number: mu,1496
Translated headword: cranny, nook, recess
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The innermost place.[1]
"So that he may be a nurse for them[2] in their old age for ever, until they come to the recesses [sc. of the house] of the god below."[3]
Greek Original:Μυχός: ὁ ἐνδότατος τόπος. ὥς σφιν γένηται γηροβοσκὸς μέχρις εἰσαεὶ μυχοὺς κίχωσι τοῦ κάτω θεοῦ.
Notes:
The headword is a masculine noun in the nominative singular: LSJ entry at web address 1.
cf. generally
mu 1493,
mu 1495,
mu 1497.
[1] Similar glossing in other lexica, and cf. also the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 9.659.
[2]
σφιν here refers to
Ajax's parents, Telamon and Eriboea.
[3] A version of
Sophocles,
Ajax 570-1 (lines spoken by
Ajax about his son Eurysakes: web address 2); cf. already
gamma 250. For the textual problems here see Jebb
ad loc. (web address 3).
Sophocles. The Ajax: with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose by Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge : University Press, 1896 (1907 printing).
Associated internet addresses:
Web address 1,
Web address 2
Web address 3
Keywords: children; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; geography; religion; tragedy
Translated by: Miranda Robinson on 19 August 2009@15:39:50.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (reworked notes; more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics) on 20 August 2009@03:55:38.
Catharine Roth (tweaked links) on 20 August 2009@15:21:54.
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