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Headword:
Φήμη
Adler number: phi,269
Translated headword: prophecy, report, utterance
Vetting Status: low
Translation: "[O] child of hope, immortal prophecy." [sc. The term is used] inasmuch as some people being in hope seek oracular responses from the god.[1]
And elsewhere: "report reveals the noble man even in the depths of earth."
Euripides says [this].[2]
Φήμη: τέκνον ἐλπίδος ἄμβροτε φήμη. παρ' ὅσον ἐν ἐλπίδι τινὲς γινόμενοι χρησμοὺς αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ αὖθις: φήμη τὸν ἐσθλὸν κἀν μυχοῖς δείκνυσι γῆς. Εὐριπίδης φησί.
Notes:
The unglossed headword is extracted from the first quotation given.
[1]
Sophocles,
Oedipus Tyrannus 158, with scholion: here the Doric form
φάμα occurs (web address 1).
[2]
Euripides fr. 865, quoted at
Aeschines 1.128 (web address 2).
Web address 1
Web address 2
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; imagery; religion; rhetoric; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 14 October 2011@01:12:34.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (supplemented tr; added primary note; tweaks) on 14 October 2011@03:37:08.
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