Παλίντροπος

turning back

Translated by Catharine Roth17 Jun 2003Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 22 words
[Meaning] backwards-hastening.1
"The Laconian woman seeing her son turning back his swift foot from war to his fatherland without his armor [...]."2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Παλίντροπος· ὀπισθόρμητος. γυμνὸν ἰδοῦσα Λάκαινα παλίντροπον ἐκ πολέμοιο παῖδ' ἑὸν ἐς πάτραν ὠκὺν ἱέντα πόδα.

Betacode
*pali/ntropos: o)pisqo/rmhtos. gumno\n i)dou=sa *la/kaina pali/ntropon e)k pole/moio pai=d' e(o\n e)s pa/tran w)ku\n i(e/nta po/da.

Notes (2)

  1. 1For this glossing term see under pi 101. ↩
  2. 2Greek Anthology 9.61.1-2 (author unknown). Cf. generally beta 572, epsilon 3709, eta 616, kappa 2026. ↩

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Revision history4 revisions · last 23 Apr 2021
  1. tweaked note — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. tweaks to tr; another note; more keywords — David Whitehead
  4. augmented note; cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. Translated — Catharine Roth

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