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Headword: Promoirois
Adler number: pi,2518
Translated headword: [in] untimely [ones]
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning in ones] ahead of fate, unseasonable. "But the younger generation was perishing in untimely deaths."[1]
Greek Original:
Promoirois: pro tês moiras, aôrois. promoirois de thanatois ephtheireto hê neolaia.
Notes:
The headword, presumably extracted from the quotation given, is dative plural of the adjective pro/moiros (post-classical, and otherwise found mainly in poetry).
[1] Aelian fr. 52f Domingo-Forasté (49 Hercher); cf. alpha 295, nu 195.
Keywords: definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; history; medicine; poetry; religion
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 29 January 2012@22:29:48.
Vetted by:
David Whitehead (tweaked and expanded notes; another keyword) on 30 January 2012@03:08:14.
David Whitehead on 16 October 2013@06:53:01.
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