Λίθιναι ὑδρίαι>20 διότι τὰ τριγενῆ προπαροξύνονται
stone water-jars
Translated by Craig Gibson9 Apr 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Λίθιναι ὑδρίαι· διότι τὰ τριγενῆ προπαροξύνονται, λίθινος, λιθίνη καὶ λίθινον.
Betacode
*li/qinai u(dri/ai: dio/ti ta\ trigenh= proparocu/nontai, li/qinos, liqi/nh kai\ li/qinon.
Notes (2)
- The headword phrase, as Adler noted, comes from the New Testament: John 2.6 (the water-into-wine miracle at the marriage feast at Cana).
- 1For this sense of
trigenh/s see generally LSJ s.v., II, and under nu 90. ↩ - 2i.e. with an acute accent on the antepenult (but not in the feminine, where the final vowel is long). ↩
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- cosmeticule — Catharine Roth
- coding — David Whitehead
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- another note — David Whitehead
- more keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Craig Gibson