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Headword: Ζῆ: καῖε πῦρ
Adler number: zeta,53
Translated headword: blaze! burn, fire!
Vetting Status: low
Translation:
In reference to events that rarely happened.
Greek Original:
Ζῆ: καῖε πῦρ: ἐπὶ τῶν μόλις γενομένων.
Notes:
cf. Appendix proverbiorum (identical but with a present participle in the gloss)
The first verb is the imperative of ζάω , “I live”. This use of ζάω is attested also in Euripides, Bacchae 6: πυρὸς ἕτι ζῶσαν φλόγα “the flame of fire still blazing”.
Keywords: daily life; dialects, grammar, and etymology; proverbs; tragedy
Translated by: Stefano Sanfilippo on 1 June 2005@14:02:27.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (internal rearrangement; modified notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 2 June 2005@02:41:29.


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