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Headword:
Ζώων
Adler number: zeta,149
Translated headword: living
Vetting Status: low
Translation: A participle, [equivalent to] ζῶν .
"While living you bring great shame on your mother, and you break the ancestral laws of your mighty fatherland."[1]
Greek Original:Ζώων: μετοχή. ζῶν. ζώων μὲν σέο ματρὶ διαμπερὲς αἶσχος ἀνάπτεις καὶ κρατερῆς πάτρης πάτρια θεσμὰ λύεις.
Note:
[1]
Greek Anthology 9.397.3-4 (
Palladas): read
Σπάρτης "of
Sparta" instead of
πάτρης "of your fatherland": the Spartan mother prepares to slay her cowardly son. The next couplet is quoted at
delta 1662.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 9 January 2004@19:05:24.
Vetted by:David Whitehead (more keywords; cosmetics) on 11 January 2004@05:37:33.
Catharine Roth (augmented note with a cross-reference) on 21 January 2004@00:58:48.
Catharine Roth (added keyword) on 23 January 2010@22:48:32.
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