Ὀφθαλμία
blindness
Translated by Marcelo Boeri6 Jan 2007Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] disability. Aristophanes in Plutus [writes]: "to deliver you from this blindness"; he is speaking of blindness as a special kind of disability.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀφθαλμία· ἡ πήρωσις. Ἀριστοφάνης Πλούτῳ· ταύτης ἀπαλλάξειν σε τῆς ὀφθαλμίας· ἰδίως ὀφθαλμίαν τὴν πήρωσίν φησιν.
Betacode
*)ofqalmi/a: h( ph/rwsis. *)aristofa/nhs *plou/tw|: tau/ths a)palla/cein se th=s o)fqalmi/as: i)di/ws o)fqalmi/an th\n ph/rwsi/n fhsin.
Notes
- Aristophanes, Plutus [Wealth] 115, with scholion.
Linked from2 entries
- ο251ὍμηροςHomer[A] [Homer] the poet, [son] of Meles the river in Smyrna and of the nymph Kritheis; others say, of Apollo and the Muse Calliope; the historian Charax says of Maion or Metius and Eumetis, his mother; according to others,…
- ο1009Ὀφθαλμιάσαιto look longingly at; to suffer from ophthalmia[Meaning] to envy; or to be in a desirous condition; or also to have an eye disease. "The multitude looking longingly at the monies had all kinds of ideas about him."
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Revision history2 revisions · last 2 Aug 2013
- Revised — David Whitehead
- augmented notes and keywords; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
- Translated — Marcelo Boeri