Ἀπέτισεν

paid back, repaid

Translated by Jennifer Benedict28 Jan 2001Vetting: high5 revisions

2 notes · 16 words

Translation

[Meaning he/she/it] gave back.1
"But the stricken beast repaid in blood - calf's - for blood."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπέτισεν· ἀπέδωκεν. μοσχείῳ δ' ἀπέτισεν ὁ θὴρ ἀνθ' αἵματος αἷμα βληθείς.

Betacode
*)ape/tisen: a)pe/dwken. mosxei/w| d' a)pe/tisen o( qh\r a)nq' ai(/matos ai(=ma blhqei/s. 

Notes (2)

  1. 1From the scholia to Homer, Odyssey 1.43, where the headword occurs. Similarly in other lexica. ↩
  2. 2Greek Anthology 6.263.5-6 (Leonidas of Tarentum), a cattle herder's dedication of spoils from a marauding lion; cf. Gow and Page (vol. I, 123), (vol. II, 357), and further excerpts from this epigram at alpha 4700, beta 571, epsilon 3492, and xi 97. ↩

References


A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. I, (Cambridge, 1965)
A.S.F. Gow and D.L. Page, eds., The Greek Anthology: Hellenistic Epigrams, vol. II, (Cambridge, 1965)

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Revision history5 revisions · last 8 Apr 2021
  1. added keyword — Ronald Allen
  2. expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-references — Ronald Allen
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Jennifer Benedict

Cite this entry

“paid back, repaid.” Suda On Line. Tr. Jennifer Benedict. 28 January 2001. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/alpha/3085>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/alpha/3085>.

Translation by Jennifer Benedict for Suda On Line, revised by Ronald Allen, David Whitehead, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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