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Headword:
*)apode/on
Adler number: alpha,3283
Translated headword: lacking, needing
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] what is disagreeable.[1]
Also [sc. attested is the genitive plural]
a)podeo/ntwn ["lacking"], [meaning] falling short.[2]
Also [sc. attested is the infinitive]
a)podei=n ["to lack"], [meaning] to fall short.[3]
Josephus [writes]: "so an infantryman has little need of burden-bearing creatures; that is, mules."[4]
"So far did he fall short of claiming the kingdom which had already been provided for him and which was his by right of birth."[5]
*)apode/on: to\ a)pare/skon. kai\ *)apodeo/ntwn, leipo/ntwn, a)poleipome/nwn. kai\ *)apodei=n, to\ a)polei/pesqai. *)iw/shpos: w(s o)li/gon a)podei=n tw=n a)xqoforou/ntwn zw/|wn, h)/toi o)re/wn, to\n pezo\n a)/ndra. to/son de\ a)podei=n tou= th\n peporisme/nhn h)/dh au)tw=| kai\ a)po\ ge/nous prosh/kousan basilei/an a)fele/sqai.
Notes:
[1] Same glossing, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon. The headword, which must be quoted from somewhere, is neuter singular of this adjective.
[2] This too must be quoted from somewhere.
[3] Illustrated by the two quotations about to be given.
[4]
Josephus,
Jewish War 3.95 (web address 1 below).
[5] Arrian,
Parthica fr. 48 Roos-Wirth.
Web address 1
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Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 27 September 2001@08:03:46.
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