Ἁβρὰ βαίνων
walking delicately
Translated by Anne Mahoney26 Aug 1998Vetting: high11 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἁβρὰ βαίνων· θρυπτόμενος, βλακευόμενος. ἐκεῖνος ὄντως ἁβρὰ βαίνων ἐδόκει ἔχων τὰς ὀφρῦς ὑπερηρμένας ἄνω.
Betacode
*(abra\ bai/nwn: qrupto/menos, blakeuo/menos. e)kei=nos o)/ntws a(bra\ bai/nwn e)do/kei e)/xwn ta\s o)fru=s u(perhrme/nas a)/nw.
Notes (2)
- See generally LSJ s.v.↩
a(bro/s (web address 1), and cf. alpha 73.- 1The headword phrase has the same or similar glossing in other lexica; references at Photius alpha49 Theodoridis. It could be extracted from the quotation given, but is more likely to be quoted from Euripides, Trojan Women 820. (So Latte on Hesychius s.v. and more tentatively Theodoridis on Photius s.v.) ↩
- 2Quotation (transmitted, in Adler's view, via the Excerpta Constantini Porphyrogeniti) unidentifiable.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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