Ἀνεπίτροπος

guardian-less

Translated by Jennifer Benedict15 Jun 2000Vetting: high4 revisions

14 words

"Neither [...] the guardian-less son of Agamemnon nor the god who rules by Acheron."

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀνεπίτροπος· οὔτε γὰρ Ἀγαμεμνονίδης παῖς ἀνεπίτροπος, οὔθ' ὁ παρὰ τὸν Ἀχέροντα θεὸς ἀνάσσων.

Betacode

*)anepi/tropos: ou)/te ga\r *)agamemnoni/dhs pai=s a)nepi/tropos, ou)/q' o( para\ to\n *)axe/ronta qeo\s a)na/sswn.

Sophocles, Electra 180-4 (abridged); quoted from alpha 3046. In both places, however, the crucial word is misquoted: it should not be a)nepi/tropos but a)peri/tropos, "unheeding".