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Headword:
Ὠκύμορος
Adler number: omega,54
Translated headword: swift-dying, early-dying
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Quick to die.[1]
"Human affairs are swift-dying and transitory. Surely, then, they are full of zeal; and where the zeal is excessive, that is pardonable".[2]
Greek Original:Ὠκύμορος: ταχυθάνατος. τὰ ἀνθρώπεια ὠκύμορα καὶ ἐφήμερα. ταῦτά τοι καὶ σπουδῆς ἀνάπλεα: καὶ συγγνώμην αὐτοῖς νέμειν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἄγαν σπουδῆς.
Notes:
[1] From the
scholia to
Homer,
Iliad 1.417 (web address 1), where the headword occurs (of
Achilles, so described by his mother
Thetis; cf.
omega 55). Similarly glossed in
Hesychius, Ps.-Herodian, and other lexica. See generally LSJ s.v.
[2] Perhaps
Damascius (Adler); accepted by Zintzen as fr. 393 of the
Life of Isidore.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; epic; ethics; mythology; philosophy
Translated by: Edward Dandrow on 9 June 2000@22:45:44.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (modified headword, translation, note, keywords) on 21 June 2001@04:25:24.
Catharine Roth (augmented notes, added keywords, raised status) on 14 September 2007@01:11:45.
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