Thursday, October 04, 2018
Self-Destruction
Homer, Odyssey 1.7 (tr. Peter Green):
Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, I (Paris: Klincksieck, 1968), p. 132, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος:
Robert Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, I (Leiden: Brill, 2010), p. 161, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος (correct irresistable to irresistible and desparate to desperate):
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It was through their own blind recklessness that they perished...According to Stephanie West ad loc., ἀτασθαλίη "denotes behavior for which men not only suffer but deserve to suffer, culpable recklessness implying a selfish disregard for the decencies of human life."
αὐτῶν γὰρ σφετέρῃσιν ἀτασθαλίῃσιν ὄλοντο...
Pierre Chantraine, Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue grecque, I (Paris: Klincksieck, 1968), p. 132, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος:
Robert Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek, I (Leiden: Brill, 2010), p. 161, s.v. ἀτάσθαλος (correct irresistable to irresistible and desparate to desperate):
