Ὀκνείω
I shrink from
Translated by Catharine Roth9 Nov 2009Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ὀκνείω· ὀκνῶ, ἀποβάλλομαι.
Betacode
*)oknei/w: o)knw=, a)poba/llomai.
Notes (2)
- The headword, an epic variant of
o)kne/w (the first of the glosses), is used in this first person singular in Homer, Iliad 5.255 (web address 1). - 1The first gloss (which is the usual contracted form of the verb: omicron 112, omicron 113, omicron 116, omicron 117, omega 51) is also in other lexica, e.g. Hesychius omicron479. ↩
- 2Adler notes that Küster conjectured
a)naba/llomai "I postpone" instead ofa)poba/llomai , and that Boissonade [Jean François Boissonade de Fontarabie, 1774-1857] adduced a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus (PG 36.903b). ↩
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from4 entries
- ο112Ὀκνεῖhesitates[Meaning he/she/it] behaves cautiously. Xenophon [writes]: "[they] hesitating, lest when the Greeks had crossed the bridge they might stay [...]". Meaning [they] practicing caution, fearing.
- ο113Ὀκνεῖνto hesitate"[...] that no scout from the enemy was hesitating, but even before the deed was thinking that they knew with what force and how equipped he was coming."
- ο116ὈκνῶI hesitate[Meaning] I am afraid. And frequently Sophocles uses this [word] in reference to fearing. "For I would not have stood up to him with hesitation [if he were] in his right mind." And the orators used the noun not in…
- ο117Ὀκνῶνhesitating[Meaning someone who is] shrinking back. Sophocles [writes]: "for every man who is doing great [deeds] is inclined to hesitate."
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