Τῆς

of the

Translated by Catharine Roth22 Nov 2000Vetting: high5 revisions

4 notes · 30 words
Meaning "of this."1 But it is not an article.2 Homer [writes]: "never to mount the bed."3 Meaning "this" [bed]. And in [the] Odyssey: "because of the virtue."4 Meaning "this" [virtue].

Greek original · Adler’s text

Τῆς· ἀντὶ τοῦ ταύτης. οὐκ ἔστι δὲ ἄρθρον. Ὅμηρος· μήποτε τῆς εὐνῆς ἐπιβήμεναι. ἀντὶ τοῦ ταύτης. καὶ ἐν Ὀδυσσείᾳ· εἵνεκα τῆς ἀρετῆς. ἀντὶ τοῦ ταύτης.

Betacode
*th=s: a)nti\ tou= tau/ths. ou)k e)/sti de\ a)/rqron. *(/omhros: mh/pote th=s eu)nh=s e)pibh/menai. a)nti\ tou= tau/ths. kai\ e)n *)odussei/a|: ei(/neka th=s a)reth=s. a)nti\ tou= tau/ths.

Notes (4)

  1. 1Feminine genitive singular. ↩
  2. 2From scholia to the Homeric verses about to be quoted. The pronoun/adjective o(, h(, to/ was originally a demonstrative, as in the epic dialect. It later became reduced to the function of a definite article. ↩
  3. 3Homer, Iliad 9.133 (web address 1). ↩
  4. 4Homer, Odyssey 2.206 (web address 2). ↩

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Revision history5 revisions · last 18 Aug 2011
  1. tweaked punctuation — Catharine Roth
  2. Revised — David Whitehead
  3. added links — Catharine Roth
  4. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  5. cosmetics — David Whitehead
  6. Translated — Catharine Roth

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