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Wish not to hear in the palace the voice often prayed for
Of your son speaking.
It were better for you that he remain mute as before;
For on an unlucky day shall he first speak.”
” [3] So at the taking of the fortification a certain Persian, not knowing who Croesus was, came at him meaning to kill him. Croesus saw him coming, but because of the imminent disaster he was past caring, and it made no difference to him whether he were struck and killed. [4] But this mute son, when he saw the Persian coming on, in fear and distress broke into speech and cried, “Man, do not kill Croesus!” This was the first word he uttered, and after that for all the rest of his life he had power of speech.
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- Commentary references to this page
(1):
- Thomas W. Allen, E. E. Sikes, Commentary on the Homeric Hymns, HYMN TO APOLLO
- Cross-references to this page
(4):
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.2
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 3.5.3
- William Watson Goodwin, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, Chapter II
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Syntax of Classical Greek, Tenses
- Cross-references in notes to this page
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- Diodorus Siculus, Library, Diod. 9.33
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
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- LSJ, ἄφων-ος
- LSJ, ἄνολβ-ος
- LSJ, ἀλλο-γνοέω
- LSJ, ἀμφίς
- LSJ, διαφέρω
- LSJ, ἐπιεικ-ής
- LSJ, ἐπιμιμνήσκομαι
- LSJ, εὐεστώ
- LSJ, φων-ή
- LSJ, ἰά
- LSJ, μέγα^ς
- LSJ, παρα^μελέω
- LSJ, πέμπω
- LSJ, πολύ-ευκτος
- LSJ, ῥήγνυ_μι
- LSJ, τε
- LSJ, τις
- LSJ, ὑπό
- LSJ, χράω