Ἐξήμβλωσεν
aborted, caused a miscarriage
Translated by Catharine Roth20 Aug 2006Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
[Meaning he/she/it] caused an abortion.1
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you aborted [my thought]," meaning you made it incomplete.2
And elsewhere: "his hope had not been aborted."3 Meaning [had not] become ineffective. Thus says Aelian: "but the very hope was aborted in her."4 And elsewhere Aelian: "the impious man's intention of sacrilege was aborted when he was slain."5
Also the aborted embryos.6
Aristophanes in Clouds [writes]: "you aborted [my thought]," meaning you made it incomplete.2
And elsewhere: "his hope had not been aborted."3 Meaning [had not] become ineffective. Thus says Aelian: "but the very hope was aborted in her."4 And elsewhere Aelian: "the impious man's intention of sacrilege was aborted when he was slain."5
Also the aborted embryos.6
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ἐξήμβλωσεν· ἐξέτρωσεν. Ἀριστοφάνης Νεφέλαις· ἐξήμβλωκας, ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀτελῆ ἐποίησας. καὶ αὖθις· καὶ οὐκ ἐξήμβλωτό οἱ ἡ ἐλπίς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀτελὴς ἐγένετο. οὕτω φησὶν Αἰλιανός· ἀλλ' αὕτη γε ἡ ἐλπὶς ἐξήμβλω αὐτῇ. καὶ αὖθις Αἰλιανός· ἐξήμβλωτο δὲ ἡ ἔννοια τῆς θεοσυλίας τῷ ἀνοσίῳ ἀποσφαγέντος αὐτοῦ. καὶ τὰ ἐξημβλωμένα ἔμβρυα.
Betacode
*)ech/mblwsen: e)ce/trwsen. *)aristofa/nhs *nefe/lais: e)ch/mblwkas, a)nti\ tou= a)telh= e)poi/hsas. kai\ au)=qis: kai\ ou)k e)ch/mblwto/ oi( h( e)lpi/s. a)nti\ tou= a)telh\s e)ge/neto. ou(/tw fhsi\n *ai)liano/s: a)ll' au(/th ge h( e)lpi\s e)ch/mblw au)th=|. kai\ au)=qis *ai)liano/s: e)ch/mblwto de\ h( e)/nnoia th=s qeosuli/as tw=| a)nosi/w| a)posfage/ntos au)tou=. kai\ ta\ e)chmblwme/na e)/mbrua.
Notes (5)
- [1] Aorist active of↩
e)camblo/w , third person singular (cf. epsilon 1531, etc.); same or similar glossing in other lexica; evidently quoted from somewhere.- 2Aristophanes, Clouds 137, with scholion. This passage has already been quoted at epsilon 1729 and epsilon 1730. ↩
- 3Aelian fr. 106 Hercher, 109e Domingo-Forasté. ↩
- 4Aelian fr. 57 Hercher, 60b D-F. ↩
- 5Aelian fr. 52 Hercher, 55c D-F; cf. eta 285. ↩
- 6From alpha 1524.
Linked from6 entries
- α1523Ἀμβλίσκουσινthey induce miscarriage[Meaning] they cast away. [The term] which applies to women destroying and casting out the fetuses. Plato [uses the word] in Theaetetus. Also [sc. attested are] a)mbli/skein and e)camblou=n ["to induce miscarriage" and…
- α1524Ἀμβλωθρίδιαabortive children[Meaning] untimely-born [ones]. Miscarried embryos. Also [sc. attested is the singular] a)mblwqri/dion, [meaning] both the abortive drug itself and also the destroyed [embryo].
- α1525Ἀμβλώσκεινto cause to miscarry[a)mblw/skein] and a)mblw=sai and e)camblw=sai: the [verb, in all in three instances, which means] to beget an incomplete [child], to destroy a foetus.
- ε1531Ἐξαμβλίσκεινto cause a miscarriage[Meaning] to cause an abortion. Aelian [writes]: "and they said that [they] made the flock of four-footed animals miscarry."
- ε1729Ἐξήμβλωκαςyou have caused a premature birth[Meaning] you thrust [it] out half-finished. "To miscarry" [e)camblw=sai] is properly said of those women who give birth too soon, not according the norm of labor and childbirth. And the drug which causes women to…
- ε1730ἘξημβλωμένονabortiveAristophanes [writes]: "but tell me [your] abortive thought." That is, the [thought] which has been lost and destroyed.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 18 Sep 2012
- tweaking — David Whitehead
- updated references, added keyword — Catharine Roth
- supplemented headword and translation; augmented notes and keywords — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth