Ὄτλος

distress, endurance

Translated by Catharine Roth2 Jun 2010Vetting: high3 revisions

3 notes · 21 words
[Meaning] suffering harm.1
Also [sc. attested is] o)tleu/w ["I endure"], I suffer harm.2
"Alas, [he] cried, what a burden you endure!"3

Greek original · Adler’s text

Ὄτλος· ἡ κακοπάθεια. καὶ Ὀτλεύω, τὸ κακοπαθῶ. τάλας, ἐφώνει, μόχθον οἷον ὀτλεύεις.

Betacode
*)/otlos: h( kakopa/qeia. kai\ *)otleu/w, to\ kakopaqw=. ta/las, e)fw/nei, mo/xqon oi(=on o)tleu/eis.

Notes (3)

  1. The headword noun is largely confined to lexica and grammars, with the notable exceptions of Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes 18, and (possibly) Sophocles, Trachiniae 7.
  2. 1Likewise or similarly glossed in other lexica; and cf. generally omicron 745. ↩
  3. 2cf. Hesychius omicron1496 s.v. o)tleu/ei. ↩
  4. 3Babrius 37.3: a young steer to the old bull pulling a plow. (The steer does not realize that he himself is destined for sacrifice.) ↩

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ο744Ὅτι χιλίαςthat a thousand [drachmas]ο745Ὀτλήσοντεςbeing about to sufferο746Ὄτλοςdistress, enduranceο747Ὄτοβονdinο748Ὀτοτύζεινto cry ototoi
Revision history3 revisions · last 30 Jul 2013
  1. more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
  2. expanded note 3 — Catharine Roth
  3. another note; another keyword; tweaks and cosmetics — David Whitehead
  4. Translated — Catharine Roth

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