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Headword: Σάου
Adler number: sigma,95
Translated headword: save
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
Preserve, protect.[1]
In the Epigrams: “Artemis [...], with your bow strike the thieves, but save [your] friends.”[2]
And elsewhere: “[Phoebus gave mankind Asclepius and Plato:] the latter, that [he may save] his soul; the former, that he may save his body.”[3]
Greek Original:
Σάου: σῷζε, φύλαττε. ἐν Ἐπιγράμμασι: Ἄρτεμι, τόξῳ μὲν κλῶπας βάλε, σάου δὲ φίλους. καὶ αὖθις: τὸν μέν, ἵνα ψυχήν: τὸν δ', ἵνα σῶμα σάοι.
Notes:
[1] Present imperative of σαόω ; in the second quotation, σάοι is third person singular present optative. See σωίζω in LSJ.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.157.1-2 (Theodoridas); cf. kappa 1838.
[3] Greek Anthology 7.109.2 (= Diogenes Laertius 3.45).
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; medicine; mythology; philosophy; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 August 2001@00:31:22.
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