Φθιμένης νυκτός

with night waning

Translated by Catharine Roth24 Nov 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 19 words

Translation

That is, passing. "So also with the present night waning".1
Also [sc. attested is] fqi/menos, [meaning someone] having perished.2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Φθιμένης νυκτός· τούτεστι παρελθούσης. ὡς καὶ τῆς νῦν φθιμένης νυκτός. καὶ Φθίμενος, φθαρείς.

Betacode
*fqime/nhs nukto/s: tou/testi parelqou/shs. w(s kai\ th=s nu=n fqime/nhs nukto/s. kai\ *fqi/menos, fqarei/s. 

Notes (2)

  1. The headword phrase, extracted from the quotation given, includes the aorist middle participle of fqi/nw, feminine genitive singular.
  2. 1Sophocles, Ajax 141 (web address 1), with scholion. ↩
  3. 2The same participle in the masculine nominative singular, similarly glossed by Hesychius. (This addendum to the entry is lacking, Adler reports, in mss AF.) ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 12 Dec 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. cosmetics — Catharine Roth
  3. Revised — David Whitehead
  4. tweaked tr and notes; another keyword — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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