Ἄραιτο
might lift, might raise
Translated by Jennifer Benedict11 Jul 2001Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] might take,1 might convey.
Euripides [writes]: "there is no story so terrible to speak of, neither suffering nor god-sent disaster, whose weight the nature of man could not lift."2 And elsewhere: "[chariots and corpses] which not even a hundred Egyptians could lift." Often they mention Egyptians as bearers of burdens.3
Euripides [writes]: "there is no story so terrible to speak of, neither suffering nor god-sent disaster, whose weight the nature of man could not lift."2 And elsewhere: "[chariots and corpses] which not even a hundred Egyptians could lift." Often they mention Egyptians as bearers of burdens.3