ὦ σχετλία, ‘over-bold.’ The word primarily means ‘enduring’ (&\sqrt;“σχε, σχεθεῖν”). Hence: (1) Of persons, (a) ‘unflinching,’ in audacity or cruelty,—the usu. Homeric sense, as Od. 9.494 “σχέτλιε, τίπτ᾽ ἐθέλεις ἐρεθιζέμεν ἄγριον ἄνδρα”; So Ph. 369, Ph. 930“ὦ σχέτλιε”, Eur. Alc. 741 “σχετλία τόλμης”. (b) ‘Suffering,’=“τλήμων”, as Aesch. PV 644 (of Io), Eur. Hec. 783. Neither Homer nor Soph. has this use. (2) Of things, ‘cruel,’ ‘wretched,’—a use common to all the poets: so Ai. 887 “σχέτλια γάρ” (‘'tis cruel’), Tr. 879.
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Sophocles: The Plays and Fragments, with critical notes, commentary, and translation in English prose. Part III: The Antigone. Sir Richard C. Jebb. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press. 1900.
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