Πρό

for

Translated by David Whitehead11 Mar 2010Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 25 words
Meaning instead of. Philemon in Pankratiast [writes]: "a slave for a slave, a master for a master".1 "Labouring for a lord". Homer [sc. writes this].2

Greek original · Adler’s text

Πρό· ἀντὶ τοῦ ἀντί. Φιλήμων Παγκρατιαστῇ· δοῦλος πρὸ δούλου, δεσπότης πρὸ δεσπότου. ἀθλεύων πρὸ ἄνακτος. Ὅμηρος.

Betacode
*pro/: a)nti\ tou= a)nti/. *filh/mwn *pagkratiasth=|: dou=los pro\ dou/lou, despo/ths pro\ despo/tou. a)qleu/wn pro\ a)/naktos. *(/omhros.

Notes (2)

  1. Likewise in other lexica; references at Photius pi1170 Theodoridis.
  2. 1Philemon fr. 54 Kock (57 K.-A.). ↩
  3. 2Andromache foretells the fate of her infant son Astyanax in Homer, Iliad 24.734 (web address 1) -- where of course the sense of the preposition is not the one the entry has begun with. ↩

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Neighbouring entries

π2303ΠρίσκοςPriscusπ2304Πριστηροειδὴς αἰχμήsaw-like spear-pointπ2305Πρόforπ2306ΠροάγωI advance, I bring forward, I escort, I increase, persuadeπ2307Προαγωγόςpander, pimp, procurer, procuress
Revision history4 revisions · last 14 Oct 2013
  1. Revised — David Whitehead
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. expanded n.2 — David Whitehead
  4. added link, set status — Catharine Roth
  5. Translated — David Whitehead

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