Adler α 955Ἄκραντον unfinished [task]
Translated by Jennifer Benedict · 22 Mar 2001 · · 4 revisions
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1 note · 22 words Translation [Meaning one] unfulfilled, incomplete.
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"A flying reed-arrow carried him off swiftly to the immortals with the speech still unfinished on his lips."
2 Greek original · Adler’s text Ἄκραντον· ἀπλήρωτον, ἀτελείωτον. τὸν δ' ἔτι μῦθον ἄκραντον ἐνὶ στομάτεσσιν ἔχοντα πτηνὸς ἐς ἀθανάτους ἥρπασεν ὦκα δόναξ.
Betacode *)/akranton: a)plh/rwton, a)telei/wton. to\n d' e)/ti mu=qon a)/kranton e)ni\ stoma/tessin e)/xonta pthno\s e)s a)qana/tous h(/rpasen w)=ka do/nac. Copy Greek Notes (1) [1] The headword -- neuter singular of this adjective -- occurs in
Homer ,
Iliad 2.138 (as
a)kra/anton ), and these are the glosses of the
scholia there. Same material in other lexica.
2 Greek Anthology 7.92.3-4.↩ Revision history 4 revisions · last 17 May 2015 17 May 2015 Revised — David Whitehead 30 Apr 2012 coding — Catharine Roth 29 Jan 2012 expanded n.1; another keyword — David Whitehead 22 Mar 2001 added note and keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead 22 Mar 2001 Translated — Jennifer Benedict
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