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Headword: Akoniti
Adler number: alpha,923
Translated headword: dustless
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning] away from dust.[1]
Without struggle and fight; or comfortably, from a metaphor of athletes who win so comfortably that they do not even get dusty.[2]
Greek Original:
Akoniti: chôris koneôs. aneu agônos kai machês: ê eumarôs, apo metaphoras tôn athlêtôn tôn houtôs eumarôs periginomenôn hôste mêde konisasthai.
Notes:
As LSJ s.v. shows, already in the C5 BCE we find attested the metaphorical usage (Thucydides 4.73.2) alongside the literal one (Sylloge Inscriptionum Graecarum 36B.20, of an Olympic boxing victory).
See further alpha 924, and under lambda 688.
[1] Similar glossing in Hesychius s.v., where Latte cites Demosthenes 18.200 (a)konitei/ in modern editions).
[2] Same or similar glossing in Photius and elsewhere.
Keywords: athletics; definition; historiography; imagery; military affairs; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 15 February 2001@03:19:01.
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