Monday, July 06, 2020

 

A Pair of Asyndetic Privative Adjectives

Aeschylus, Eumenides 785 = 815 (tr. Richmond Lattimore):
...cancer, the leafless, the barren...

...λειχὴν ἄφυλλος ἄτεκνος...
Alan H. Sommerstein ad loc.:


English lichen is derived from Greek λειχήν (via Latin lichen).

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# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 4:25 PM


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