Μητιέτα
counsellor
Translated by Catharine Roth14 Apr 2008Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Also [sc. attested is] mhtie/ths , [meaning] an advisor. Of this [noun] the vocative [is] mhtie/ta and by metaplasm the nominative [sc. is the same].1 mhtie/ta *zeu= ["[o] counsellor Zeus"].2 And in composition polu/mhtis ["of great counsel"].3
But [sc. do not confuse this with]mh=tin e)lafroi/ ["those light in counsel"], [meaning] the foolish, those who do not judge firmly or securely.4
But [sc. do not confuse this with]
Greek original · Adler’s text
Μητιέτα. καὶ Μητιέτης, ὁ βουλευτικός. οὗ ἡ κλητικὴ μητιέτα καὶ κατὰ μεταπλασμὸν ἡ εὐθεῖα. μητιέτα Ζεῦ. καὶ ἐν συνθέσει πολύμητις. Μῆτιν δὲ ἐλαφροί, οἱ ἄφρονες, οἱ μὴ στερρῶς μηδὲ βεβαίως φρονοῦντες.
Betacode
*mhtie/ta. kai\ *mhtie/ths, o( bouleutiko/s. ou(= h( klhtikh\ mhtie/ta kai\ kata\ metaplasmo\n h( eu)qei=a. mhtie/ta *zeu=. kai\ e)n sunqe/sei polu/mhtis. *mh=tin de\ e)lafroi/, oi( a)/frones, oi( mh\ sterrw=s mhde\ bebai/ws fronou=ntes.
Notes (4)
- 1From a scholion on Homer, Iliad 1.175 (web address 1), where
mhti/eta occurs; cf. scholion on Iliad 1.508 (vocative, quoted below). See also Hesychius mu1282 and (according to Adler) the Ambrosian Lexicon. Chantraine 1.199 agrees that such formulaic phrases with nominative in short-a represent instances of the vocative used as nominative. ↩ - 2Homer, Iliad 1.508 ↩
- 3Epic epithet, used especially of Odysseus, e.g. Iliad 1.311. ↩
- 4Phrase extracted from an unknown source. For this sense of
e)lafro/s see LSJ s.v., III.a. ↩
References
P. Chantraine, Grammaire homérique. Paris 1958.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
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