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Headword: *)/allutos
Adler number: alpha,1444
Translated headword: inexorable
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[Meaning something] difficult to escape from.[1] In the Epigrams: "while we are in evil old age, limb-wasting inexorable poverty is in her prime."[2]
Greek Original:
*)/allutos: dusxerw=s luome/nh. e)n *)epigra/mmasi: kakou= d' e)pi\ gh/raos h(mi=n a)/llutos h(ba/skei guiotakh\s peni/h.
Notes:
[1] This gloss shows the nominative singular headword to be feminine; presumably extracted from the quotation given.
[2] Greek Anthology 6.30.5-6 (Macedonius), a retiring fisherman's dedication to Poseidon; cf. Madden (168-171). See another excerpt from this epigram at sigma 914.
Reference:
J.A. Madden, Macedonius Consul: The Epigrams, (Hildesheim 1995)
Keywords: daily life; definition; dialects, grammar, and etymology; economics; ethics; medicine; poetry; religion; trade and manufacture
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 8 June 2000@16:02:36.
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Catharine Roth (Altered wording, added keyword.) on 5 September 2000@00:49:21.
Catharine Roth (cosmetics) on 4 July 2002@00:16:21.
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David Whitehead (augmented notes and keywords; cosmetics) on 28 March 2006@05:10:35.
David Whitehead (tweaks) on 11 February 2012@06:26:07.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 13 March 2012@01:44:12.
David Whitehead on 14 June 2015@06:14:25.
Ronald Allen (expanded n.2, added bibliography, added cross-reference, added keywords) on 14 August 2023@22:32:49.
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