Τηλωπός

far away, seen from afar

Translated by Ronald Allen28 Jun 2012Vetting: high4 revisions

2 notes · 18 words

[Meaning] away from home.¹ Sophocles [writes:] "and even if now, far away, he keeps going after hostile enemies."²

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τηλωπός· ἔκδημος. Σοφοκλῆς· κεἰ τὰ νῦν τηλωπὸς οἰχνεῖ δυσμενῶν θήραν ἔχων.

Betacode

*thlwpo/s: e)/kdhmos. *sofoklh=s: kei) ta\ nu=n thlwpo\s oi)xnei= dusmenw=n qh/ran e)/xwn.

The headword, extracted from the quotation given, is a two-ending adjective in the masculine/feminine nominative singular; see generally LSJ s.v.
1The gloss -- from the scholia to line 564 of the quotation: see next note -- is also a two-ending adjective in the masculine/feminine nominative singular; cf. phi 738 (gloss) and see generally LSJ s.v. ↩
2Sophocles, Ajax 563-4 (web address 1). Ajax (Aias Telamonius, cf. alphaiota 9 and see OCD(4) s.v. Aias) makes an unreassuring proposal to his wife Tekmessa (tau 246) that their son Eurysaces should have as his guardian Ajax's absent half-brother Teucer (OCD(4) s.v. Teucer(2)). ↩

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