Ὤδινον
they were in travail
Translated by Catharine Roth3 Sep 2005Vetting: high10 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] they were pregnant, they gave birth. "But he was notable for wealth and lineage. So the citizens were in travail with a genuine envy against him."1
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὤδινον· ἐνεκυμόνησαν, ἀπέτεκον. ὁ δὲ ἦν πλούτῳ καὶ γένει διαφανής. οὐκοῦν οἱ πολῖται ὤδινον κατ' αὐτοῦ φθόνον γενναῖον.
Betacode
*)/wdinon: e)nekumo/nhsan, a)pe/tekon. o( de\ h)=n plou/tw| kai\ ge/nei diafanh/s. ou)kou=n oi( poli=tai w)/dinon kat' au)tou= fqo/non gennai=on.
Notes (1)
- The headword is presumably (though not demonstrably) extracted from the quotation given.
- 1Aelian fr. 345 Domingo-Forasté (349 Hercher). The verb
w)di/nw seems here to refer to the envy as a true labor of the mind. This sense is applied to "agonies of thought", by Plato, Theaetetus 148E; cf. also Euripides, Hippolytus 258, Heraclidae 644; Sophocles, Ajax 794. See also Plato, Republic 407C, for the meaning of "worry for something" and Hesychius omega55 (glosspa/sxei, lupei=tai besidesti/ktei , ἐγκυμονεῖ. The verb has a brief mention at omega 22. ↩
Linked from3 entries
- ω22Ὠδίνlabor-pain[w)di/n, genitive] w)di=nos. [Dative plural] tai=s w)di=si. Also [sc. attested is the related verb] w)di/nw ['I am in labor, I bring forth']; [used] with an accusative.
- ω23Ὠδίςlabor-pain[Meaning] the pain [arising] out of childbirth. "He did not dare to express the labor-pain which he had borne, as he nourished the hope of perhaps sometime achieving [it] by concealment."
- ω24Ὠδῖνες θανάτου καὶ παγίδεςpangs and snares of death[Meaning] death-bringing dangers. David [says]: "pangs of hell encircled me; snares of death outran me." The pains of the mother before childbirth are called pangs. Therefore by this metaphor the calamities preparing to…
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