absent
From LSJ
κρέσσων γὰρ οἰκτιρμοῦ φθόνος → it is better to be envied than pitied | to be envied is a nobler fate than to be pitied (Pindar, Pythian 1.85)
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
adjective
from home: P. and V. ἔκδημος, V. θυραῖος.
forgetful: Ar. and P. ἐπιλήσμων.
be absent: P. and V. ἀπεῖναι, ἀποστατεῖν (Plato), P. ἀπογίγνεσθαι.
be from home: P. and V. ἐκδημεῖν, Ar. and P. ἀποδημεῖν.
it is nothing. finish your tale. I was absent in mind: V. οὐδὲν· πέραινε δ' ἐξέβην γὰρ ἄλλοσε (Eur., Iphigenia in Tauris 781).
