Ἀπήμονα
unhurt
Translated by Catharine Roth4 Jul 2000Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] unharmed.1
Homer [writes]: "them he found no longer altogether unhurt nor without slaughter." He has combined two ideas, meaning some not unhurt, [i.e.] the wounded, and others not unslaughtered, [i.e.]the dead.2
*ph=ma [means] harm, from the [verb] ph/qw meaning panqa/nw .3 The neuters ending in alpha4 form compounds in four ways: either the compounds keep the same ending, like dh=ma , [giving] dia/dhma ;5 or they are derived from the genitive, like gra/mma, gra/mmatos , [giving] e)ggra/mmatos ; or they change the ending to -os, like sto/ma , [giving] xruso/stomos ; or they change the ending to -wn , like ei(=ma , [giving] leuxei/mwn and ph=ma , [giving] a)ph/mwn .6
Homer [writes]: "them he found no longer altogether unhurt nor without slaughter." He has combined two ideas, meaning some not unhurt, [i.e.] the wounded, and others not unslaughtered, [i.e.]the dead.2