Προβλῆτες
headlands
Translated by Catharine Roth11 May 2013Vetting: high4 revisions
Translation
Philoctetes says: "o harbors, o headlands, o fellowship of [= with] mountain beasts, o precipitous rocks [...] what deeds the boy did to me!"
Greek original · Adler’s text
Προβλῆτες· Φιλοκτήτης φησίν· ὦ λιμένες, ὦ προβλῆτες, ὦ ξυνουσία θηρῶν ὀρείων, ὦ καταρρῶγες πέτραι· οἷ' ἔργ' ὁ παῖς μ' ἔδρασε.
Betacode
*problh=tes: *filokth/ths fhsi/n: w)= lime/nes, w)= problh=tes, w)= cunousi/a qhrw=n o)rei/wn, w)= katarrw=ges pe/trai: oi(=' e)/rg' o( pai=s m' e)/drase.
Notes
- Sophocles, Philoctetes 936-7, 940 (web address 1), quoted already at omicron 550.
For the headword (here nominative/vocative plural, extracted from the passage), see also pi 2343.
External resources
- Web address 1 perseus.tufts.edu
Linked from2 entries
- ο550Ὀρείωνof mountainy[Meaning] of those living in the mountains. Philoktetes says: "o harbors, o promontories, o communions of [= with] mountainy beasts, o jagged rocks."
- π2343Προβλῆταςjutting out[Meaning] built outwards for stability; but some [say it means] the first [posts] extending forward -- which is [a] preferable [interpretation]. Stability indeed [is called] pro/blhma ["bulwark"]. "There was no bulwark…
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- more keywords; tweaking — David Whitehead
- Translated — Catharine Roth