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Headword:
Ὀλέθρου
πείρατ'
ἐφῆπται
Adler number: omicron,139
Translated headword: culminations of destruction hang over [them]
Vetting Status: low
Translation: The limit of your destruction is bound to you and hangs from you. In effect, you have been bound to destruction.
Greek Original:Ὀλέθρου πείρατ' ἐφῆπται: ἐπιδέδεται καὶ ἐξῆπται τὸ τοῦ ὀλέθρου ὑμῶν πέρας. οἷον δέδεσθε τῷ ὀλέθρῳ.
Notes:
The headword phrase (which became proverbial: see below) occurs in
Homer,
Iliad 7.402 (web address 1); LSJ s.v.
ἐξάπτω remarks on the frequent metaphorical use of
ἐξῆπται in
Homer to mean "is or was hung over one, fixed as one's fate or doom".
Same glosses in
Hesychius and
Photius; and cf. also
Diogenianus 6.96.
Web address 1
Keywords: daily life; definition; epic; imagery; proverbs
Translated by: Nick Nicholas on 29 November 2009@19:25:12.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; tweaks) on 30 November 2009@03:22:38.
Catharine Roth (fixed link, tweaked translation, added keyword) on 30 November 2009@10:09:18.
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