Κατατρυφή

merry-making, luxury, pleasure

Translated by Catharine Roth10 Aug 2008Vetting: high4 revisions

19 words

[Meaning] refuge. "But I will say: for I do not have merry-making". Meaning escape, so as not to speak.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Κατατρυφή· καταφυγή. ἀλλ' ἐρῶ· οὐ γὰρ ἔχω κατατρυφήν. ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀποφυγὴν τοῦ μὴ εἰπεῖν.

Betacode

*katatrufh/: katafugh/. a)ll' e)rw=: ou) ga\r e)/xw katatrufh/n. a)nti\ tou= a)pofugh\n tou= mh\ ei)pei=n.

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus 218 (web address 1), with scholion. But the manuscripts of Sophocles read katakrufa/n, "place of concealment"; the Suda's katatrufh/, cognate with the verb katatrufa/w (kappa 836, and see under alpha 3449), is otherwise unattested (and plainly wrong).