Φήμη

prophecy, report, utterance

Translated by Catharine Roth14 Oct 2011Vetting: high2 revisions

2 notes · 40 words
"[O] child of hope, immortal prophecy." [sc. The term is used] inasmuch as some people being in hope seek oracular responses from the god.1
And elsewhere: "report reveals the noble man even in the depths of earth." Euripides says [this].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φήμη· τέκνον ἐλπίδος ἄμβροτε φήμη. παρ' ὅσον ἐν ἐλπίδι τινὲς γινόμενοι χρησμοὺς αἰτοῦσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ. καὶ αὖθις· φήμη τὸν ἐσθλὸν κἀν μυχοῖς δείκνυσι γῆς. Εὐριπίδης φησί.

Betacode
*fh/mh: te/knon e)lpi/dos a)/mbrote fh/mh. par' o(/son e)n e)lpi/di tine\s gino/menoi xrhsmou\s ai)tou=sin a)po\ tou= qeou=. kai\ au)=qis: fh/mh to\n e)sqlo\n ka)n muxoi=s dei/knusi gh=s. *eu)ripi/dhs fhsi/.

Notes (2)

  1. The unglossed headword is extracted from the first quotation given.
  2. 1Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus 158, with scholion: here the Doric form fa/ma occurs (web address 1). ↩
  3. 2Euripides fr. 865, quoted at Aeschines 1.128 (web address 2). ↩

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φ267Φηλώματαcheatingsφ268Φηλώσειςyou will cheatφ269Φήμηprophecy, report, utteranceφ270ΦημίI say, I assertφ271ΦημίζωI spread rumors
Revision history2 revisions · last 8 Dec 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. supplemented tr; added primary note; tweaks — David Whitehead
  3. Translated — Catharine Roth

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