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Headword: Ὠδίς
Adler number: omega,23
Translated headword: labor-pain
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
The pain caused by childbirth.[1]
"He did not dare to express the labor-pain which he had borne, as he nourished the hope of perhaps sometime achieving [it] by concealment."[2]
Greek Original:
Ὠδίς: ἡ ἐκ τοῦ τοκετοῦ ὀδύνη. ὁ δὲ ἐξειπεῖν τὴν ὠδῖνα, ἣν ἐκύει, οὐκ ἐτόλμα, τὴν ἐλπίδα τοῦ ἴσως ἄν ποτε τυχεῖν ἐν τῷ κρύπτειν ὑποθάλπων ἄρα ἐκεῖνος.
Notes:
[1] cf. omega 22, omega 24, omega 25, omega 26.
[2] Aelian fr. 303 Domingo-Forasté (306 Hercher); cf.. epsilon 696.
Apparently a figurative childbirth, as the subject is masculine; see generally LSJ s.v. ὠδίς II ('metaph. travail, anguish').
Keywords: daily life; definition; gender and sexuality; imagery; medicine; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 3 September 2005@00:47:17.
Vetted by:
Ross Scaife (changed status after restoring an implosion) on 7 March 2006@16:10:45.
Catharine Roth (added notes and keywords) on 8 March 2006@10:54:10.
David Whitehead (tweaked translation; expanded n.2) on 9 March 2006@03:09:09.
Catharine Roth (updated reference) on 7 June 2011@15:04:35.
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