Ὀναίατο

they might benefit [from]

Translated by Catharine Roth21 Jul 2006Vetting: high3 revisions

2 notes · 29 words

Translation

[Meaning] they might enjoy.1 Sophocles [writes]: "may they never benefit from beauty" -- that is, pleasure, fame -- "having accomplished such deeds" -- that is, having killed my father.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὀναίατο· ἀπολαύσειαν. Σοφοκλῆς· μηδέποτ' ἀγλαΐας ὀναίατο· τουτέστιν ἡδονῆς, δόξης· τοιάδ' ἀνύσαντες ἔργα. ἤτοι τὸν ἐμὸν πατέρα ἀνελόντες.

Betacode
*)onai/ato: a)polau/seian. *sofoklh=s: mhde/pot' a)glai/+as o)nai/ato: toute/stin h(donh=s, do/chs: toia/d' a)nu/santes e)/rga. h)/toi to\n e)mo\n pate/ra a)nelo/ntes. 

Notes (2)

  1. cf. omicron 328 and the other cross-references there.
  2. 1The headword, extracted from the quotation, is aorist middle optative of o)ni/nhmi, third person plural; an older form than that at omicron 331. ↩
  3. 2Sophocles, Electra 211-12 (web address 1), with scholia. ↩

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Revision history3 revisions · last 30 Jun 2013
  1. upgraded link — Catharine Roth
  2. tweaking — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

Cite this entry

“they might benefit [from].” Suda On Line. Tr. Catharine Roth. 21 July 2006. <https://www.cs.uky.edu/~raphael/sol/sol-entries/omicron/329>. Read at ReadSuda: <https://readsuda.org/omicron/329>.

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

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