Ἄναυδος

speechless

Translated by Jennifer Benedict26 Oct 2000Vetting: high6 revisions

3 notes · 46 words
[Meaning] voiceless.1
Also [sc. attested is] a)naudh/ton ["unspeakable"], [meaning something] not to be told, forbidden, ineffable. "And I would not say anything [is] unspeakable."2
"He was silent and dripping with tears at the shame of what had happened to him, ashamed to tell of the incident".3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἄναυδος· ἄφωνος. καὶ Ἀναύδητον, ἄλεκτον, ἀπόρρητον, ἀνέλπιστον. κοὐδὲν ἀναύδητον φατίξαιμ' ἄν. ὃς ἐπ' αἰσχύνης τοῦ πάθους περιρρεόμενος δάκρυσιν ἄναυδος ἦν, ἐξειπεῖν αἰδούμενος τὸ πάθος.

Betacode
*)/anaudos: a)/fwnos. kai\ *)anau/dhton, a)/lekton, a)po/rrhton, a)ne/lpiston. kou)de\n a)nau/dhton fati/caim' a)/n. o(\s e)p' ai)sxu/nhs tou= pa/qous perirreo/menos da/krusin a)/naudos h)=n, e)ceipei=n ai)dou/menos to\ pa/qos.

Notes (3)

  1. 1Same glossing in other lexica, and in the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 5.456, where the headword occurs (web address 1) ↩
  2. 2Sophocles, Ajax 715 (web address 2). ↩
  3. 3Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr.62 Habrich. ↩

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Neighbouring entries

α2111Ἀνά τοί με πείθεις ἀλλ' ἐκεῖνο οὔπω λέγειςso you are persuading me; but that you do not yet sayα2112Ἀνατυπῶσαιto transform, impressα2113Ἄναυδοςspeechlessα2114Ἀναυλείpassage-money-lessα2115Ἀναυμαχίουfor anaumachion, for non-naval-fighting
Revision history6 revisions · last 9 Jul 2015
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. upgraded a link, added another, coding — Catharine Roth
  3. augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
  4. modified n.2; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. restorative and other cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  7. Translated — Jennifer Benedict

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