Μέσφ' ὅτε

till [the time] when

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Jun 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

2 words

[Meaning] until.

Greek original · Adler’s text

Μέσφ' ὅτε· ἕως οὗ.

Betacode

*me/sf' o(/te: e(/ws ou(=.

The first word in this headword phrase, me/sfa, is a poetic adverb, equivalent to me/xri; see LSJ s.v. me/sfa and me/sfi.
The combination me/sf' o(/te is attested mainly in Callimachus, Quintus Smyrnaeus, and the Poems of Gregory of Nazianzus. Similar glosses occur in the scholia to Callimachus (Hymn to Artemis 195, Hecale fr. 260.4), in Hesychius (mu964), and in lexica on Gregory's works.

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