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Headword:
Θανατῶν
Adler number: theta,45
Translated headword: longing to die; putting to death
Vetting Status: low
Translation: [He] desiring death.[1]
"Vespasian ordered [them] not to fight it out with men longing to die; for nothing [is] braver than despair."[2]
Aeschylus [writes]: "the only one of the gods [who] does not love gifts [is] death."[3]
Also attested is
θανατῶν ["putting to death"]; with the accusative; also [meaning] killing.[4]
Also
θανατῶσιν ἀνθρώποις ["to/with men longing to die"].[5]
Θανατῶν: θανάτου ἐπιθυμῶν. Οὐεσπασιανὸς ἐκέλευε μὴ συμπλέκεσθαι θανατῶσιν ἀνθρώποις: οὐδὲν γὰρ ἀλκιμώτερον ἀπογνώσεως. Αἰσχύλος: μόνος θεῶν γὰρ θάνατος οὐ δώρων ἐρᾷ. λέγεται δὲ θανατῶν: αἰτιατικῇ: καὶ ὁ ἀποκτένων. καὶ θανατῶσιν ἀνθρώποις.
Notes:
[1] For the desiderative verb
θανατάω or
θανατιάω , cf.
theta 43. This is its present participle, masculine nominative singular, similarly glossed in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.
[2]
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.208 (web address 1), cf.
Etymologicum Magnum 442.53.
[3]
Aeschylus fr. 161.1 [fr. Niob. 168 Hermann], from numerous
scholia (on
Homer,
Iliad 1.158,
Sophocles,
Electra 139, and
Aristophanes,
Frogs 1392) and also in
Stobaeus, Anth. 4.51.1 cf.
delta 1451,
mu 1235,
pi 14.
[4] Similar glosses on the present participle of the verb
θανατόω ["put to death"] in
Photius and the
Lexica Segueriana, except for
αἰτιατικῇ which is added from a syntactic source. See also
epsilon 295.
[5] From the
Josephus passage already quoted.
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Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; military affairs; tragedy
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 September 2007@20:52:09.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (augmented n.1; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics) on 16 September 2007@04:49:06.
David Whitehead (augmented n.3, with material from Patrick Lake; cosmetics) on 29 June 2010@04:03:28.
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