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Headword:
*)alithri/ous
Adler number: alpha,1259
Translated headword: sinners
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning them] disappointing, erring, failing.[1]
"You not only prepared [the way for] unsuccessful men to return, but you also pointed out sinners [amongst] all those under their command".[2]
And elsewhere: "or how could this man fail to be some demonic sinner?"[3]
Greek Original:*)alithri/ous: a)potuxo/ntas, a(marto/ntas, a)stoxh/santas. ou) mo/non a)pra/ktous pareskeu/asas e)panelqei=n, a)lla\ kai\ a)lithri/ous pa/ntwn tw=n au)toi=s e)ntetalme/nwn a)pe/deicas. kai\ au)=qis: h)\ pw=s ou)k e)/mellen o(/de a)/nqrwpos dai/mwn tis a)lith/rios ei)=nai.
Notes:
Same entry is ps.-
Zonaras.
[1] Three participles gloss the headword, a noun (for which see already
alpha 1257 and
alpha 1258) perhaps, though not demonstrably, extracted from the first quotation given; all, like it, are in the masculine accusative plural.
[2] Quotation unidentifiable.
[3]
Procopius,
Secret History 12.27 (web address 1), on the emperor Justinian's nature and habits; cf. Kaldellis (60). On Justinian I, see
iota 446.
A. Kaldellis, ed. and trans., Prokopios: The Secret History, (Indianapolis 2010)
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; ethics; historiography; history; religion
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 18 May 2000@20:47:59.
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