Ἀραῖος
accursed
Translated by Jennifer Benedict13 Jul 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning someone who is] lying under a curse.
"Might I now not benefit, but perish accursed, if I have done to you anything [sc. of what you accuse me of doing]."1 And Sophocles [writes]: "but if [you do] not, I shall await you, even accursed below, forever heavy."2 As he is dying Heracles says this to his son.
Buta)raio/s [means] weak.3
Buta)raiw=s as an adverb ["loosely"] [means] not fitting snugly.
"I/they found the door of the tomb lying loosely [i.e. ajar]."4
"Might I now not benefit, but perish accursed, if I have done to you anything [sc. of what you accuse me of doing]."1 And Sophocles [writes]: "but if [you do] not, I shall await you, even accursed below, forever heavy."2 As he is dying Heracles says this to his son.
But
But
"I/they found the door of the tomb lying loosely [i.e. ajar]."4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἀραῖος· ἀρᾷ ὑποκείμενος. μὴ νῦν ὀναίμην, ἀλλ' ἀραῖος, εἴ σέ τι δέδρακ', ὀλοίμην. καὶ Σοφοκλῆς· εἰ δὲ μὴ, μενῶ σ' ἐγὼ καὶ νέρθεν ἀραῖος εἰσαεὶ βαρύς. ὁ Ἡρακλῆς φησι τελευτῶν πρὸς τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ. Ἀραιὸς δὲ ὁ ἀσθενής. Ἀραιῶς δὲ ἐπιρρηματικῶς μὴ ἡρμοσμένως. εὗρον δὲ τὴν θύραν τοῦ μνήματος ἀραιῶς ἐπικειμένην.
Betacode
*)arai=os: a)ra=| u(pokei/menos. mh\ nu=n o)nai/mhn, a)ll' a)rai=os, ei)/ se/ ti de/drak', o)loi/mhn. kai\ *sofoklh=s: ei) de\ mh\, menw= s' e)gw\ kai\ ne/rqen a)rai=os ei)saei\ baru/s. o( *(hraklh=s fhsi teleutw=n pro\s to\n ui(o\n au)tou=. *)araio\s de\ o( a)sqenh/s. *)araiw=s de\ e)pirrhmatikw=s mh\ h(rmosme/nws. eu(=ron de\ th\n qu/ran tou= mnh/matos a)raiw=s e)pikeime/nhn.
Notes (4)
- See also alpha 3813, alpha 3817.
- 1Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 644-645 (web address 1 below). ↩
- 2Sophocles, Trachiniae 1201-1202 (web address 2). ↩
- 3cf. alpha 3814, alpha 3836. (The headword itself is properispomenon:
a)rai=os .) ↩ - 4Iamblichus, Babyloniaca fr. 24 Habrich. ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
- Web address 2 perseus.tufts.edu
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Revision history6 revisions · last 22 Oct 2015
- tweaked links — Catharine Roth
- more x-refs; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- augmented notes; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- betacode cosmetics — Catharine Roth
- translation; notes — Joseph L. Rife
- added note and keyword; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Jennifer Benedict