Μεμαυῖα

eager

Translated by Catharine Roth16 Feb 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 21 words
[Meaning she] desiring, longing.1 "For though she desired it, Clotho could not find among mortals another slayer for this man [Ajax]."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μεμαυῖα· προθυμουμένη, γλιχομένη. οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐν θνητοῖσιν ἠδύνατο καὶ μεμαυῖα εὑρέμεναι Κλωθὼ τῷδ' ἕτερον φονέα.

Betacode
*memaui=a: proqumoume/nh, glixome/nh. ou)de\ ga\r e)n qnhtoi=sin h)du/nato kai\ memaui=a eu(re/menai *klwqw\ tw=|d' e(/teron fone/a.

Notes (2)

  1. 1Feminine nominative singular participle of the perfect me/mona (mu 571); cf. mu 552. From a scholion on Homer, Iliad 4.73. ↩
  2. 2Greek Anthology 7.148.3-4 (anonymous): no one but Ajax himself could slay Ajax; cf. kappa 1832. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 15 Sep 2019
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. another x-ref and keyword — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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