Νεοχάρακτα

new-imprinted

Translated by Nick Nicholas31 Aug 2009Vetting: high3 revisions

1 note · 29 words
[Meaning] recently imprinted. Sophocles [writes]: "his tracks new-imprinted". For whenever the prints of animals occur recently, hunters prefer to follow them, before the scent is eliminated by the wind.1

Greek original · Adler’s text

Νεοχάρακτα· νεωστὶ κεχαραγμένα. Σοφοκλῆς· ἴχνη τὰ κείνου νεοχάρακτα. ὁπόταν γὰρ νεωστὶ αἱ ἀποχαράξεις τῶν ζῴων γένωνται, μᾶλλον ἐπακολουθοῦσιν οἱ κυνηγέται, πρὶν ὑπὸ ἀνέμου ἀφανισθῇ ἡ ὀδμή.

Betacode
*neoxa/rakta: newsti\ kexaragme/na. *sofoklh=s: i)/xnh ta\ kei/nou neoxa/rakta. o(po/tan ga\r newsti\ ai( a)poxara/ceis tw=n zw/|wn ge/nwntai, ma=llon e)pakolouqou=sin oi( kunhge/tai, pri\n u(po\ a)ne/mou a)fanisqh=| h( o)dmh/.

Notes (1)

  1. The headword, evidently extracted from the quotation given, is neuter plural of the adjective neoxa/raktos.
  2. 1Sophocles, Ajax 6 (web address 1), with gloss and further expansion from the scholia there. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 6 Jun 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  3. cosmetics, status — Catharine Roth
  4. Translated — Nick Nicholas

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