Μεταποίνιον
retributive, after-punishing
Translated by Max Eager24 Jun 2009Vetting: high3 revisions
Translation
"[...] justice, the overseer of the universe, retributive."
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μεταποίνιον· τὴν δίκην, τὴν ἔφορον τῶν ὅλων, μεταποίνιον.
Betacode
*metapoi/nion: th\n di/khn, th\n e)/foron tw=n o(/lwn, metapoi/nion.
Notes
- The headword adjective is presumably extracted from the quotation.
The quotation itself, consisting of a string of appositional accusative phrases in a dactylo-epitritic meter, must be a fragment of a longer statement, probably from choral poetry -- cf. pi 3092 where the abridged gnomic statement (in the nominative)di/kh metapoi/nios occurs. The source of the quotation is unidentifiable. (Adler attributed it to Aelian, but on no discernible basis.) Apart from these two entries the word is unattested elsewhere.
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Revision history3 revisions · last 19 May 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- rearranged headwords, tweaked and rearranged notes, raised status — William Hutton
- supplied notes; more keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Max Eager