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Adler number: eta,447
Translated headword: loved
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning he/she/it] was desiring, was longing for, had a passion for.[1]
"But Abraham loved Roman equipment, always supposing somehow that fortune was laughing at him."[2]
"A certain man loved an ugly slave-woman of evil character."
Babrius [sc. writes this].[3]
And elsewhere: "[he] loved to see a barbarian corpse even if it had been slain by another."[4]
Êra: epethumei, eglicheto, erôtikôs eichen. ho de Abraam êra Rhômaïkês parataxeôs aei pôs autôi gelan tên tuchên oiomenos. aischras tis êra kai kakotropou doulês. Babrios. kai authis: êra nekron idein barbaron kai hup' allou pephoneumenon.
Notes:
[1] Perhaps from a scholion on
Aristophanes Acharnians 146, "he loved to eat sausages" (text at web address 1); cf. in any event
eta 448 and
epsilon 2887.
[2] Theophylact Simocatta,
Histories 3.7.1.
[3]
Babrius 10.1.
[4] Quotation unidentifiable.
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; comedy; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; food; gender and sexuality; historiography; history; military affairs; poetry; women
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 15 February 2001@22:39:17.
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