ᾟ νομίζεται

as is customary

Translated by Anne Mahoney4 Dec 1999Vetting: high5 revisions

3 notes · 27 words

Translation

[Meaning] as is usually done for the dead.1
Ans elsewhere: h(=| [is used] to mean where.2
"[Corinth,] where, finding delight and such pleasure, you resolved to stay."3

Greek original · Adler’s text

ᾟ νομίζεται· ὡς νενόμισται ἐπὶ τοῖς νεκροῖς. καὶ αὖθις· ᾗ ἀντὶ τοῦ ὅπου. ᾗ σὺ φιληδῶν οὕτως ἀρέσκῃ καὶ μένειν ἔγνως.

Betacode
*(=h| nomi/zetai: w(s neno/mistai e)pi\ toi=s nekroi=s. kai\ au)=qis: h(=| a)nti\ tou= o(/pou. h(=| su\ filhdw=n ou(/tws a)re/skh| kai\ me/nein e)/gnws.  

Notes (3)

  1. 1From the scholia to Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 1603, where the headword phrase occurs (web address 1). (The messenger is describing how Antigone and Ismene bathed and clothed Oedipus before he went to his end.) ↩
  2. 2See already eta 6. ↩
  3. 3Greek Anthology 7.98.3-4 (addressed to Xenophon, attributed to Diogenes Laertius); again, more fully, at phi 323. ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 20 Nov 2020
  1. expanded note — Catharine Roth
  2. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  3. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  4. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  5. augmented notes; added keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Anne Mahoney

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