Ὠδῖνες θανάτου καὶ παγίδες

pangs and snares of death

Translated by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝5 Jul 2003Vetting: high6 revisions

2 notes · 44 words

Translation

[Meaning] death-bringing dangers. David [says]: "pangs of hell encircled me; snares of death outran me."1 The pains of the mother before childbirth are called pangs. Therefore by this metaphor the calamities preparing to bring [one] near to death itself are called 'pangs of hell.'2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὠδῖνες θανάτου καὶ παγίδες· οἱ θανατηφόροι κίνδυνοι. Δαβίδ· ὠδῖνες ᾅδου περιεκύκλωσάν με· προέφθασάν με παγίδες θανάτου. Ὠδῖνες καλοῦνται αἱ πρὸ τοῦ τοκετοῦ τῆς τικτούσης ὀδύναι. τοιγαροῦν ἐκ τῆς μεταφορᾶς ταύτης ὠδῖνες ᾅδου προσαγορεύονται αἱ αὐτῷ προσπελάζειν τῷ θανάτῳ παρασκευάζουσαι συμφοραί.

Betacode
*)wdi=nes qana/tou kai\ pagi/des: oi( qanathfo/roi ki/ndunoi. *dabi/d: w)di=nes a(/|dou perieku/klwsa/n me: proe/fqasa/n me pagi/des qana/tou. *)wdi=nes kalou=ntai ai( pro\ tou= toketou= th=s tiktou/shs o)du/nai.  toigarou=n e)k th=s metafora=s tau/ths w)di=nes a(/|dou prosagoreu/ontai ai( au)tw=| prospela/zein tw=| qana/tw| paraskeua/zousai sumforai/. 

Notes (2)

  1. See also omega 22, omega 23, omega 25, omega 26.
  2. 1Theodoret (PG 80, 973c) on Psalm 17:6 LXX. ↩
  3. 2Theodoret (PG 80, 1797b) on Psalm 114:3 LXX. ↩

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Revision history6 revisions · last 20 May 2016
  1. coding — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. another keyword — David Whitehead
  5. added x-refs; augmented keywords; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. modified translation, added notes — Catharine Roth
  7. Translated — Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝

Cite this entry

“pangs and snares of death.” Suda On Line. Tr. Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝. 5 July 2003. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omega/24>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omega/24>.

Translation by Bobbiejo Winfrey ✝ for Suda On Line, revised by David Whitehead, Catharine Roth, licensed CC BY-NC-SA 1.0. Shown unchanged, under the same licence, non-commercially. Licence & terms

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