Σφίγξ
Sphinx
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝22 Mar 2002Vetting: high2 revisions
Translation
Look under 'Oedipus'.
Greek original · Adler’s text
Σφίγξ· ζήτει ἐν τῷ Οἰδίπους.
Betacode
*sfi/gc: zh/tei e)n tw=| *oi)di/pous.
Notes
Linked from5 entries
- οι34ΟἰδίπουςOedipus, OidipousLaius, king of Thebes, got a wife Jocasta, who bore him a son Oedipus. After he was born, the father received an oracle saying that the son would sleep with his own mother; and he ordered him to be thrown out onto the…
- π3083Ποικιλῳδόςriddle-singing[Referring to] the Sphinx. "The riddle-singing Sphinx led us to investigate what lay at our feet, neglecting obscure matters."
- σ636Σκληρᾶς ἀοιδοῦof a harsh singer[Meaning] of the Sphinx. That is, of the difficult [singer], because of the riddle. Or of the murderous [singer]. "You came and released the Cadmeians' town from a harsh singer's tribute, which we used to pay."
- σ1741Σφήξwasp[Genitive] sfhko/s: a kind of bee. But [the Sphinx is] *sfi/gc, [genitive] *sfiggo/s.
- σ1746ΣφιγγὸςSphinx's"Proposing many [Sphinx's] problems in response to many questions of these strange puzzles -- not [problems] of the Cadmeian Sphinx, but of some kind of Sphinx anyway, yet more wonderful and much wiser."
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Revision history2 revisions · last 5 Jan 2014
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Revised — David Whitehead
- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝