Ὠκύμορος

swift-dying, early-dying

Translated by Edward Dandrow9 Jun 2000Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 26 words
[Meaning] quick to die.1
"Human affairs are swift-dying and transitory. Surely, then, they are full of zeal; and where the zeal is excessive, that is pardonable".2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὠκύμορος· ταχυθάνατος. τὰ ἀνθρώπεια ὠκύμορα καὶ ἐφήμερα. ταῦτά τοι καὶ σπουδῆς ἀνάπλεα· καὶ συγγνώμην αὐτοῖς νέμειν ὑπὲρ τῆς ἄγαν σπουδῆς.

Betacode
*)wku/moros: taxuqa/natos. ta\ a)nqrw/peia w)ku/mora kai\ e)fh/mera. tau=ta/ toi kai\ spoudh=s a)na/plea: kai\ suggnw/mhn au)toi=s ne/mein u(pe\r th=s a)/gan spoudh=s.

Notes (2)

  1. 1From the scholia to Homer, Iliad 1.417 (web address 1), where the headword adjective occurs (of Achilles, so described by his mother Thetis; cf. omega 55). Same or similar glossing in Hesychius, ps.-Herodian, and other lexica. See generally LSJ s.v. ↩
  2. 2Tentatively attributed by Adler to Damascius; accepted by Zintzen as fr. 393 of the Life of Isidore. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 31 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. augmented notes, added keywords, raised status — Catharine Roth
  3. modified headword, translation, note, keywords — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Edward Dandrow

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