Ἄδωρα
giftless [gifts], no-gift [gifts]
Translated by Jennifer Benedict18 Mar 2001Vetting: high9 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] bad-gift [ones], those being given for evil. Sophocles [writes]: "gifts of enemies are no-gifts and not beneficial." The sense [is] he does not want to have even the largest [gifts] from enemies, but from friends even the smallest.1
And Aelian [writes]: "each of them, having seized the giftless fate of the girl with their own lot, as a tragic poet would say, murdered themselves."2
And Aelian [writes]: "each of them, having seized the giftless fate of the girl with their own lot, as a tragic poet would say, murdered themselves."2