Ἀπόφημον

unspeakable

Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Jun 2001Vetting: high6 revisions

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[Meaning something] boding ill.¹
"The uneducated and unlearned tongue is adroit in (?)the results it can achieve in one way and another, and yet it slips into the unspeakable and the blasphemous."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ἀπόφημον· δύσφημον. ἡ γλῶττα ἡ ἀπαίδευτος καὶ ἀμαθὴς τῇ τε ἄλλῃ καὶ ταύτῃ ἐπίσπαστα παλαμᾶται, καὶ μέντοι καὶ ἐς τὸ ἀπόφημόν τε καὶ βλάσφημον κατολισθάνει.

Ἀπόφημον · unspeakable (α 3635) · Suda

*)apo/fhmon: du/sfhmon. h( glw=tta h( a)pai/deutos kai\ a)maqh\s th=| te a)/llh| kai\ tau/th| e)pi/spasta palama=tai, kai\ me/ntoi kai\ e)s to\ a)po/fhmo/n te kai\ bla/sfhmon katolisqa/nei.

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