ἀελλοδρόμας
ὥσπερ γὰρ ζώου τῶν ὄψεων ἀφαιρεθεισῶν ἀχρειοῦται τὸ ὅλον, οὕτως ἐξ ἱστορίας ἀναιρεθείσης τῆς ἀληθείας τὸ καταλειπόμενον αὐτῆς ἀνωφελὲς γίνεται διήγημα → for just as a living creature which has lost its eyesight is wholly incapacitated, so if history is stripped of her truth all that is left is but an idle tale | for, just as closed eyes make the rest of an animal useless, what is left from a history blind to the truth is just a pointless tale
English (LSJ)
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A storm-swift, πῶλος B.5.39.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀελλοδρόμας: ὁ, ταχὺς ὡς ἡ ἄελλα, θύελλα, πῶλον ἀελλοδρόμαν, Βακχυλίδης V, 39. Τὰ χειρόγρ. τῶν σχολ. εἰς Πίνδ. (Ὀλ. 1) ἔχουσιν ἀελλόδρομος, ἀλλ’ ὁ Βακχυλίδης φιλεῖ τοὺς τύπους εἰς -ης, (-ας), ὥστε δὲν ἔχομεν λόγον ν’ ἀμφιβάλλωμεν περὶ τῆς ἀκριβείας τοῦ κειμένου. Σημ. Kenyon.
