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Headword:
*)amaura/
Adler number: alpha,1511
Translated headword: faint [things]
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] dark [ones]. Whence also 'faint',[1] [meaning] that which is not conspicuous.[2]
And Arrian [writes]: "for these reasons even for the future I have no faint a hope that [things] will go well for me."[3]
Greek Original:*)amaura/: skoteina/. o(/qen kai\ a)mauro/n, to\ mh\ diafane/s. kai\ *)arriano/s: e)c w(=n kai\ ta\ u(po/loipa di' e)lpi/dos e)/xw ou)k a)maura=s, o(/ti kalw=s moi e(/cei.
Notes:
[1] i.e. the neuter singular of the headword.
[2] Likewise or similarly in other lexica; references at
Photius alpha1145 Theodoridis. Latte on
Hesychius s.v.
a)mauro/n regards
a)maura/ as extracted from the
Septuagint (
Leviticus 13.4), but there are numerous other possibilities.
[3] Arrian,
Parthica p.77 Roos (FGrH 156 F118). In this common Greek idiom, 'no(t) faint' means strong.
Translated by: William Hutton on 24 April 2001@21:49:00.
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